CVE-2008-5555 (GCVE-0-2008-5555)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-12 18:13 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:56
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Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 relies on the XDomainRequestAllowed HTTP header to authorize data exchange between domains, which allows remote attackers to bypass the product's XSS Filter protection mechanism, and conduct XSS and cross-domain attacks, by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence, related to "XDomainRequest Allowed Injection (XAI)." NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2008-12-11 00:00
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