Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5556

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-12 18:13:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:46

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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