CVE-2005-4270: Watchfire Appscan Qa

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 5.0.134 only; version 5.0.609 only

Published 2005-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.