CVE-2004-0844 describes an address bar spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) systems. This flaw allows remote attackers to manipulate the displayed address bar and spoof web pages using specially crafted URLs, facilitating phishing attacks. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and impacting integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:windows_server_2003_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.