CVE-2008-5553

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None

Description

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 disables itself upon encountering a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-5553

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2008-12-12T18:30:03

Last Modified Date
2018-10-11T20:56:03

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-79	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:beta2::::::	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47442
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5553
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5553

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:27:21				Added to TrackCVE