Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [,1.3.34)[2.0.0,2.0.55)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.63% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-3007378
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jul 2005

CVE-2005-2088  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 1.3.34, 2.0.55 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The Apache HTTP server before 1.3.34, and 2.0.x before 2.0.55, when acting as an HTTP proxy, 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 Apache 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."

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