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CVE-2005-0238

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany 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.

Published

2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnome	epiphany	*	Yes
Application	mozilla	camino	0.8.5	Yes
Application	mozilla	mozilla	≤ 1.6	Yes
Application	omnigroup	omniweb	5	Yes
Application	opera	opera_browser	≤ 7.54	Yes

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.shmoo.com/idn Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.shmoo.com/idn Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)