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CVE-2008-5556
published 2008-12-12

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…

PriorityP417medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
11.22%
95.4th percentile
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.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftinternet_explorer——
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