CVE-2005-2089 describes an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability affecting Microsoft IIS 5.0 and 6.0. Attackers can poison web caches, bypass WAFs, and conduct XSS attacks by sending HTTP requests with both "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" and "Content-Length" headers, leading IIS to misinterpret and forward the request body as a separate request. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating network access, medium complexity, and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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