CVE-2007-3164 Information

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication for an IDN web site uses ACE labels for the domain name in the status bar but uses internationalized labels for this name in the authentication dialog which might allow remote attackers to perform phishing attacks if the user misinterprets confusable characters in the internationalized labels as demonstrated by displaying xn–theshmogroup-bgk.com only in the status bar.

Reference

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070608/cross-domain-basic-auth-phishing-tactics/ http://osvdb.org/36142 http://secunia.com/advisories/25663 http://www.bitsploit.de/archives/428-Cross-Domain-Basic-Auth-Phishing-Tactics.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24483 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34867