CVE-2005-2088

Apache HTTP Server < 2.0.55 - HTTP Request Smuggling

Title source: rule

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."

Scores

EPSS 0.5429
EPSS Percentile 98.0%

Classification

CWE
CWE-444
Status draft

Affected Products (3)

apache/http_server < 2.0.55
debian/debian_linux
debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Jul 05, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026