CVE-2005-4270

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Watchfire AppScan QA 5.0.609 and 5.0.134 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP 401 response with a WWW-Authenticate header containing a long Realm field.

Affected products

Watchfire Appscan Qa: 5.0.134, 5.0.609

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18013
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/260
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015362
http://www.cybsec.com/vuln/CYBSEC_Security_Advisory_AppScanQA_RemoteCodeExec.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419586/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15873
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2933
http://secunia.com/advisories/18013
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/260
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015362
http://www.cybsec.com/vuln/CYBSEC_Security_Advisory_AppScanQA_RemoteCodeExec.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419586/100/0/threaded

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