{"cve":"CVE-2005-2088","nvd":{"published":"2005-07-05T04:00:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:14:13.023","status":"Modified","description":"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.\"","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-444"],"references":["http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847","http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html","http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-announce&m=112931556417329&w=3","http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/14530"],"products":["apache:http_server","debian:debian_linux"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:39:29.870204089+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2005-2088","score":0.20461,"percentile":0.97504,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}