URL Decoding Zone Spoofing Vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6

CVE-2005-0054 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof a less restrictive security zone and execute arbitrary code via an HTML page containing URLs that contain hostnames that have been double hex encoded, which are decoded twice to generate a malicious hostname, aka the "URL Decoding Zone Spoofing Vulnerability."

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