Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0236

Title: Omniweb IDN homograph phishing attacks

Phishing

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0236.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0236: The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Omniweb 5 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

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.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 http://www.shmoo.com/idn http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0236 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 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:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.