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CVE-2008-1545
Published: Mar 28, 2008
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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References
29453
third-party-advisory
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3786
third-party-advisory
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http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
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ADV-2008-0980
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
20080321 [MSA01240108] IE7 Transfer-Encoding: chunked allows Request Splitting/Smuggling.
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
ie-setrequestheader-chunk-security-bypass(42804)
vdb-entry
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