National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0234
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: multiple-browsers-idn-spoof(19236)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.shmoo.com/idn
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050208 International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20050206 state of homograph attacks
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-03-21
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 12461
