Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Popup Window Address Bar Spoofing Weakness
Publish Date: 15 février 2011
Gravité: : Medium
Identifiant(s) CVE: : CVE-2006-5544
Date du conseil: 15 février 2011
Description
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a malicious URL containing non-breaking spaces (%A0), which causes the address bar to omit some characters from the URL.
Information Exposure Rating:
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Solutions
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1000938
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1000938 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Popup Window Address Bar Spoofing Weakness
Affected software and version:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0