CVE-2008-1545

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Internet Explorer
PublishedMar 28, 2008
First seenMar 28, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft internet_explorer7.0, 7.0.5730.11—

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