Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2091 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Websphere Application Server 5.0/5.1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE network
ibm
Summary
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."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |