CVE-2005-2088

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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2005-07-05

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-444

Affected products

• Http Server (Apache)
• Debian Linux (Debian)

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847
• http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
• http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-announce&m=112931556417329&w=3
• http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14530
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17319
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17487
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17813
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19072
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19185
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19317
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23074
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014323
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.600000
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102197-1
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=PK13959&apar=only
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=PK16139&apar=only
• http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_1.3
• http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.0
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-803
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-805
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:130
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_46_apache.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-582.html
• http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html