Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

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

Microsoft/Internet Explorer2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0.5730.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.htmlnvdExploit
secunia.com/advisories/29453nvdVendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/3786nvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threadednvd
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804nvd

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