CVE-2008-5551

Published Dec 12, 2008

Last updated 10 days ago

Overview

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 by injecting data at two different positions within an HTML document, related to STYLE elements and the CSS expression property, aka a "double injection."
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C4AC575C-3505-460F-8BB5-3ADA1F149E8D"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References