The encapsulation script mechanism in Webwasher CSM Appliance Suite 5.x uses case-sensitive detection of malicious tokens, which allows…

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

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2005-4514](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2005-4514.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2005-4514)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 23:46 UTC.