CVE-2005-2091
IBM WebSphere 5.1 and WebSphere 5.0 allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header,…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
IBM WebSphere 5.1 and WebSphere 5.0 allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes WebSphere to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.52% probability · 73th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- ibm/websphere application server
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367
- http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.htmlExploit
- http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898
- http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367
- http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.htmlExploit
- http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.