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CVE-2008-5553
published 2008-12-12

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…

PriorityP419medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
11.56%
95.5th percentile
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."

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftinternet_explorer——
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