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CVE-2005-0236

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0236 describes a domain name spoofing vulnerability in Omniweb 5 due to its International Domain Name (IDN) support. Remote attackers can exploit this by using punycode-encoded domain names that, when decoded, display homograph characters from other character sets in URLs and SSL certificates, facilitating phishing attacks. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:omnigroup:omniweb:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0100 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19236
securityfocus.com / bid/12461
shmoo.com / idn
Exploit
shmoo.com / idn/homograph.txt