CVE-2008-4787

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
37.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: October 29, 2008 (6406 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a hostname containing many   (Non-Blocking Space character) sequences, which are rendered as whitespace, aka MSRC ticket MSRC7899, a related issue to CVE-2003-1025.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com