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CVE-2008-4787

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.8 Published: 2008-10-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References