| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2008-1545 (CCN-42804) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2008-03-21 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2008-03-21 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2021-07-23 | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 3.7 Low (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) 3.4 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
2.0 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-20 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Bypass Security | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2008-1545 Source: CCN Type: SA29453 Internet Explorer HTTP Request Smuggling/Splitting Vulnerabilities Source: SECUNIA Type: Vendor Advisory 29453 Source: SREASON Type: UNKNOWN 3786 Source: CCN Type: Microsoft Web site Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-031 Source: CCN Type: Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site Internet Explorer: Home Page Source: CCN Type: Minded Security Labs: Advisory #MSA01240108 Microsoft Internet Explorer "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" allows Request Splitting/Smuggling Source: MISC Type: Exploit http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 43605 Microsoft IE Chunked Transfer-Encoding Request Smuggling Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 20080321 [MSA01240108] IE7 Transfer-Encoding: chunked allows Request Splitting/Smuggling. Source: CCN Type: BID-28379 Microsoft Internet Explorer 'setRequestHeader()' Multiple Vulnerabilities Source: VUPEN Type: UNKNOWN ADV-2008-0980 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN ie-setrequestheader-chunk-security-bypass(42804) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN ie-setrequestheader-chunk-security-bypass(42804) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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