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CVE-2005-0236

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Omnigroup Omniweb: 5

References

• 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

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