CVE-2005-4270

critical

Description

Buffer overflow in Watchfire AppScan QA 5.0.609 and 5.0.134 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP 401 response with a WWW-Authenticate header containing a long Realm field.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2933

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419586/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015362

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/260

http://secunia.com/advisories/18013

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-15

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03965

Detections

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