Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0233

Title: Firefox IDN homograph phishing attacks

Phishing

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0233.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Feb 08, 2005
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
8.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0233: 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.

Impacted Vendors

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mozilla 3
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opera_software 1
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opera 1
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omnigroup 1

Reference Links

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 http://www.shmoo.com/idn http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100029 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11229 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 http://www.shmoo.com/idn http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100029 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11229
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0233 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.