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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

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

Link: CVE-2008-5556

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Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-5556

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