CVE-2008-1545

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-1545

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2008-03-28T23:44:00

Last Modified Date
2021-07-23T15:05:45

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0.5730.11:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html	Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/29453	Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1545
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1545

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 15:53:26				Added to TrackCVE