PT-2008-6614 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2008-12-12 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5553

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 Beta 2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header after a CRLF sequence. This occurs because the XSS Filter in the affected software disables itself upon encountering this specific header.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 Beta 2, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the X-XSS-Protection HTTP header to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5553

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5553 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47442 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277 · Note