CVE-2008-1545

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 28, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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