CVE-2004-1104: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 35.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to spoof a legitimate URL in the status bar and conduct a phishing attack via a web page that contains a BASE element that points to the legitimate site, followed by an anchor (a) element with an empty "href" attribute, and a FORM whose action points to a malicious URL, and an INPUT submit element that is modified to look like a legitimate URL.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.