CVE-2005-3751

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Published Nov 22, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.5% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

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

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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.

Metrics

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.

Exploit prediction score: 1.5% (1.472% probability within 30 days)

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

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 11:24 PM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Nov 22, 2005, 8:00 PM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 11:24 PM
Reserved: Nov 22, 2005, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:17 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Nov 22, 2005, 8:03 PM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:17 PM

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