CVE-2008-1545
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 28, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 28, 2008
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 29453third-party-advisory
- 3786third-party-advisory
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
- ADV-2008-0980vdb-entry
- 20080321 [MSA01240108] IE7 Transfer-Encoding: chunked allows Request Splitting/Smuggling.mailing-list
- ie-setrequestheader-chunk-security-bypass(42804)vdb-entry
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