CVE-2008-5553

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 disables itself upon encountering a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-12-12

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47442