CVE-2008-1545

Published Mar 28, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 11.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:24 AM
Reserved
Mar 28, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 28, 2008, 11:44 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:51 PM