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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-12-12T18:13:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:56:46.984Z

Reserved: 2008-12-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-5556

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-12T18:30:03.377

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:54:19.917

Link: CVE-2008-5556

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