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.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Websphere_application_server | Ibm | 5.0 (including) | 5.0 (including) |
| Websphere_application_server | Ibm | 5.1.0 (including) | 5.1.0 (including) |
References
- http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367
- http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html
- http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898
- http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014367
- http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html
- http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42898