CVE - CVE-2008-1545

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-1545	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BUGTRAQ:20080321 [MSA01240108] IE7 Transfer-Encoding: chunked allows Request Splitting/Smuggling. URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded MISC:http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html SECUNIA:29453 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 SREASON:3786 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786 VUPEN:ADV-2008-0980 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980~~ (Obsolete source) XF:ie-setrequestheader-chunk-security-bypass(42804) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20080328	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20080328)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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