CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2005-2091
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
1.52%
Original NVD 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."