CVE-2005-0238

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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 Epiphany 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

GNOME Epiphany: all versions
Mozilla Camino: 0.8.5
Mozilla: through 1.6
Omnigroup Omniweb: 5
Opera Browser: through 7.54

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461
http://www.shmoo.com/idn
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461
http://www.shmoo.com/idn
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236

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