NVD
- Id
- 5305
- Name
- CVE-2008-5556
- Description
- ** DISPUTED ** 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."
- 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
- 2008-12-15
- Seq
- 2008-5556