Improper input validation in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-1545
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.
Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.118 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.118 · newest: 0.118 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 7.0, 7.0.5730.11
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/29453 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3786 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html (Exploit)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804 (vdb-entry)