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.
References
- 20728 vdb-entry
- 20061025 IE7 status: 8 days after release, 3 unfixed issues mailing-list
- VU#347188 third-party-advisory
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx
- 1017122 vdb-entry
- 22542 third-party-advisory
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/
- 30022 vdb-entry
- ie-popup-addressbar-spoofing(29827) vdb-entry