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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - ' ' Address Bar URI Spoofing EDB-32539 · webapps · Oct 27, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 31960 vdb-entry
- 20081027 Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6 mailing-list
- 20081027 Re: Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6 mailing-list
- ie-nbsp-addressbar-spoofing(46234) vdb-entry