CVE-2006-1192

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

31.5%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 allows remote attackers to conduct phishing attacks by spoofing the address bar and other parts of the trust UI via unknown methods that allow "window content to persist" after the user has navigated to another site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-1626.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2006-04-11

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 31.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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