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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0799

Original release date:02/19/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to spoof a legitimate URL in the status bar and conduct a phishing attack via a web page with an anchor element with a legitimate "href" attribute, a form whose action points to a malicious URL, and an INPUT submit element that is modified to look like a legitimate URL. NOTE: this issue is very similar to CVE-2004-1104, although the manipulations are slightly different.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 4.9

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060223 Re: Internet Explorer Phishing mouseover issue

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425883/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060218 Re: Internet Explorer Phishing mouseover issue

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425386/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060216 Internet Explorer Phishing mouseover issue

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425298/100/0/threaded

External Source: XF

Name: ie-ahref-status-spoofing(17938)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17938