CVE-2004-2219

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

8.1%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar to facilitate phishing attacks via Javascript that uses an invalid URI, modifies the Location field, then uses history.back to navigate to the previous domain, aka NullyFake.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Published

2004-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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