CVE-2004-0844: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 32.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6 on Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) systems allows remote attackers to alter displayed address bars and spoof web pages via a URL containing special characters, facilitating phishing attacks, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing on Double Byte Character Set Systems Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only

Published 2004-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.