Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-1545
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.242
EPSS Ranking 95.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
Products affected by CVE-2008-1545
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0.5730.11