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CVE-2008-4787

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-10-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a hostname containing many   (Non-Blocking Space character) sequences, which are rendered as whitespace, aka MSRC ticket MSRC7899, a related issue to CVE-2003-1025.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497825/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497827/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31960
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46234
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497825/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497827/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31960
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46234

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