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CVE-2008-1545

The setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 does not restrict the dangerous Transfer-Encoding

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 6

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securityreason.com

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securityfocus.com

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