CVE-2005-3751 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2005-11-22

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: 1.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apsis:pound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-934-1	New pound packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
EUVD	EUVD-2005-3746	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0177.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/18367
http://secunia.com/advisories/18381
http://secunia.com/advisories/20215
http://secunia.com/advisories/20510
http://www.apsis.ch/pound/pound_list/archive/2005/2005-10/1129827166000/index_html?fullMode=1#1129827166000
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-934
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-05.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_19.html

History

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Subscriptions

Apsis Pound

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-11-22T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:24:36.215Z

Reserved: 2005-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-3751

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-11-22T20:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-3751

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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