CVE-2005-2091

IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0-5.1 - HTTP Request Smuggling via Chunked Transfer-Encoding

Title source: llm

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."

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Exploit x_refsource_misc

http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898

Scores

EPSS 0.0152

EPSS Percentile 71.9%

Details

Status published

Products (2)

ibm/websphere_application_server 5.0

ibm/websphere_application_server 5.1.0

Published Jul 05, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026