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Microsoft Internet Explorer Anti-XSS Filter Vulnerabilities

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Windows

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Wont Fix

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Internet Explorer and is prone to anti-xss filter vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

These flaws are due to, - Injections facilitated by some HTTP headers are not currently blocked. - Injections into some contexts are not blocked where contents can be injected directly into JavaScript without breaking out a string. - Allowing access to the attacker to inject XSS string in 2 different HTML positions. - It lets the attacker execute XSS attacks using CRLF sequence in conjunction with a crafted Content-Type header.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Windows Platform with Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2.

Solution

Solution

No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.