CVE-2006-5544

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
54.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: October 26, 2006 (7139 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft ie

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org