CVE-2005-2088

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
54.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: July 5, 2005 (7618 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

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."

CWE

CWE-444

Affected Products

apache http serverdebian debian linux

References

🔗 docs.info.apple.com 🔗 lists.trustix.org 🔗 marc.info 🔗 seclists.org 🔗 secunia.com