CVE detail
CVE-2008-5552 — CVE-2008-5552
Published 2008-12-12 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor microsoft · Product internet_explorer · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.1157
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
96.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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."
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References