CVE-2006-5544: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 20.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a malicious URL containing non-breaking spaces (%A0), which causes the address bar to omit some characters from the URL.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0 only

Published 2006-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.