CVE-2008-5556
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 does not recognize attack patterns designed to operate against web pages that are encoded with utf-7, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting crafted utf-7 content. NOTE: the vendor reportedly disputes this issue, stating "Behaviour is by design.
- 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
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277
