CVE-2005-2089 Other in n/a
Remote attackers can poison web caches, bypass firewalls, and conduct XSS via HTTP request smuggling in Microsoft IIS.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-2089?
CVE-2005-2089 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services, published on 30 Jun 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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."
Weakness: CWE-444
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2089?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2005-2089?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-2089 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2005-2089 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2089 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-h9j5-mj66-qp4g.