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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-07T08:24:42.717Z

Reserved: 2008-03-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-1545

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-03-28T23:44:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-1545

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