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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-1545

CVE-2008-1545

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

3
  • Microsoft/Internet Explorer3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0.5730.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 7

Patches

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