CVE-2008-1545

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 7.0, 7.0.5730.11

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

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