CVE-2005-2089

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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."

Metrics

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

Weakness enumeration

CWE-444

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.htmlBroken Link
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdfBroken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42899Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.htmlBroken Link
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdfBroken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42899Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

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

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