CVE-2005-2091
IBM WebSphere 5.1 and WebSphere 5.0 allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web...
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."
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
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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."
- Record
CVE-2005-2091- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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."
- Record
CVE-2005-2091- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2005-2092 No score
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."
- Record
EUVD-2005-2092- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j5x8-4v22-2qmv No score
IBM WebSphere 5.1 and WebSphere 5.0 allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web...
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."
- Record
GHSA-j5x8-4v22-2qmv- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2005-2091 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published June 30, 2005. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.52%, the 74th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html
watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf
seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
securitytracker.com/id?1014367
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2091
github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5x8-4v22-2qmv