Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2008-5556

None

CVSS

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EPSS

11.2%

Published

Dec 12, 2008

CISA due date

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The record

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 packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed

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