CVE-2008-1545

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
24.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: March 28, 2008 (6620 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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