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CVE-2008-1545 (GCVE-0-2008-1545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-28 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:24

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

6 references

URL	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/29453	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2008-03-21 00:00

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FKIE_CVE-2008-1545

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-03-28 23:44 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:51

Severity

Summary

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/29453	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
cve@mitre.org	http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/29453	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	microsoft	internet_explorer	7.0
	microsoft	internet_explorer	7.0.5730.11

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GHSA-MQXG-27CJ-85M3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 23:41 – Updated: 2022-05-01 23:41

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  "id": "GHSA-mqxg-27cj-85m3",
  "modified": "2022-05-01T23:41:11Z",
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GSD-2008-1545

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23

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CVE-2008-1545

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CVE-2008-1545

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CVE-2008-1545 (GCVE-0-2008-1545)

FKIE_CVE-2008-1545

GHSA-MQXG-27CJ-85M3

GSD-2008-1545

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