CVE-2008-5552

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8-beta2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47441
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47441

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