--- title: "CVE-2005-2088\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-2088?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2005-2088 Publication date 5 July 2005 Last updated 17 July 2025 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## 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." ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | apache | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 1.3.34-4ubuntu1 | | 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.3.34-4ubuntu1 | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 1.3.34-2ubuntu0.1 | | apache2 | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 2.2.3-3.2ubuntu0.1 | | 6.10 edgy | Fixed 2.0.55-4ubuntu4.1 | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 2.0.55-4ubuntu2.2 | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2088) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2088) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2005-2088) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-2088) ### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) + [USN-160-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-160-1) + Apache 2 vulnerabilities + 4 August 2005 ### Other references *