CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1545
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 does not restrict the dangerous Transfer-Encoding HTTP request header, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request splitting and HTTP request smuggling attacks via a POST containing a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a request body with an incorrect chunk size.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7.0
• microsoft internet explorer 7.0.5730.11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786 securityreason.com
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786 securityreason.com
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com