CVE-2005-4514

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-4514 · Published 23/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4514 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting csm appliance suite (webwasher).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
csm appliance suite webwasher	`= 5.0`	No fix yet

Description

The encapsulation script mechanism in Webwasher CSM Appliance Suite 5.x uses case-sensitive detection of malicious tokens, which allows attackers to bypass script detection by using tokens that can be upper or lower case. NOTE: the vendor has stated that this problem could not be reproduced, and has asked the researcher for more information, without a response as of 20060103

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/293
securityfocus.com/archive/1/420106/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/420158/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/420678/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/16047
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23884

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