CVE-2008-5552

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 - XSS

Title source: llm

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."

Scores

EPSS 0.0806
EPSS Percentile 92.0%

Classification

CWE
CWE-79
Status published

Affected Products (2)

microsoft/internet_explorer
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 12, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026