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CVE-2008-1545

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-03-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References