Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting pound package, versions [,2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POUND-2368705
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Nov 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Nov 2005

CVE-2005-3751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pound to version 2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in Pound before 1.9.4 allows remote attackers to poison web caches, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with conflicting Content-length and Transfer-encoding headers.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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