CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2088

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2005-07-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-07-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-444

Description

The Apache HTTP server before 1.3.34, and 2.0.x before 2.0.55, when acting as an HTTP proxy, 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 Apache 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."

Affected configurations

• apache http server (>= 2.0.35 < 2.0.55) • debian debian linux 3.0 • debian debian linux 3.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness

References