Detections
Analytics
CVE-2005-2091
high
Description
IBM WebSphere 5.1 and WebSphere 5.0 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 WebSphere 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."
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf