Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-3136 Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:05:28.585Z

Reserved: 2007-06-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-3144

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-06-11T18:30:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-3144

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