Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29453
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786
- http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.