CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2091

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

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."

Affected configurations

• ibm websphere application server 5.0 • ibm websphere application server 5.1.0

References

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html seclists.org
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367 securitytracker.com
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html Exploit
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf www.watchfire.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html seclists.org
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367 securitytracker.com
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html Exploit
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf www.watchfire.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com