CVE-2005-2088

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 5, 2005
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2005-2088: Medium severity, CVSS 4.3 | Vulnix