XSS in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-5556
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.112 (95.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 8
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)