CVE-2008-1545 | BDVDB-2026-29982 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://secunia.com/advisories/29453
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-03-28Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.