CVE-2005-2089

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.0 and 6.0 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 IIS 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."

Category

4.3
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 54.34% Top 5%
Third-Party Advisory seclists.org Third-Party Advisory ibmcloud.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42899 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html broken link
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf broken link
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html third party advisory mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-2089?
CVE-2005-2089 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-2089?
To fix CVE-2005-2089, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-2089 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2005-2089 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~54% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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