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CVE-2006-5544
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 20.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.8% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- 20728 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20061025 IE7 status: 8 days after release, 3 unfixed issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#347188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1017122 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 22542 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ie-popup-addressbar-spoofing(29827) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5529 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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