NVD
- Id
- 5301
- Name
- CVE-2008-5552
- Description
- The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks via a CRLF sequence in conjunction with a crafted Content-Type header, as demonstrated by a header with a utf-7 charset value. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.3
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.3
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 2.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-03
- Published
- 2008-12-12
- Modified Date
- 2008-12-24
- Seq
- 2008-5552