CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1544
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 does not block dangerous HTTP request headers when certain 8-bit character sequences are appended to a header name, which allows remote attackers to (1) conduct HTTP request splitting and HTTP request smuggling attacks via an incorrect Content-Length header, (2) access arbitrary virtual hosts via a modified Host header, (3) bypass referrer restrictions via an incorrect Referer header, and (4) bypass the same-origin policy and obtain sensitive information via a crafted request header.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3785 securityreason.com
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA02240108.html www.mindedsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489954/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28379 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020226 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5291 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3785 securityreason.com
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA02240108.html www.mindedsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489954/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28379 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020226 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5291 oval.cisecurity.org