CVE-2005-4514
The encapsulation script mechanism in Webwasher CSM Appliance Suite 5.x uses case-sensitive detection of malicious tokens, which allows…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known 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
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20051223 RE: Webwasher CSM Appliance Script Security Restriction Bypass (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- webwasher-security-bypass(23884) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20051222 Webwasher CSM Appliance Script Security Restriction Bypass (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 16047 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20060103 RE: Webwasher CSM Appliance Script Security Restriction Bypass (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 293 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-4509 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-4514)Record last updated .