CVE-2008-1545

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-03-28

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/29453
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
• http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804