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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0233 Detail

Description

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.shmoo.com/idn CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100029 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Tool Signature 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11229 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Tool Signature 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-0233
NVD Published Date:
02/08/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.