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CVE-2004-0844

33
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:windows_server_2003_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
32.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3276 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

marc.info
marc.info
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17651
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17652
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2448
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8127
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/431576
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.html
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource