CVE-2005-0236 Information

Description

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Omniweb 5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets which facilitates phishing attacks.

Reference

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 http://www.shmoo.com/idn http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236

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