CVE-2008-5556

2008-12-1218:13:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

52.1%

JSON

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.