Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Unscored CVE-2007-3164 EUVD-2007-3156GHSA-976c-hwhm-53hx

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication for an IDN web site, uses ACE labels for the domain name in the…

Published Jun 11, 2007 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication for an IDN web site, uses ACE labels for the domain name in the status bar, but uses internationalized labels for this name in the authentication dialog, which might allow remote attackers to perform phishing attacks if the user misinterprets confusable characters in the internationalized labels, as demonstrated by displaying xn--theshmogroup-bgk.com only in the status bar.

References