NVD
- Id
- 5304
- Name
- CVE-2008-5555
- Description
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 relies on the XDomainRequestAllowed HTTP header to authorize data exchange between domains, which allows remote attackers to bypass the product"s XSS Filter protection mechanism, and conduct XSS and cross-domain attacks, by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence, related to "XDomainRequest Allowed Injection (XAI)." 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
- 2008-5555