CVE-2009-0781

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-03-06
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
489028: CVE-2009-0781 tomcat: XSS in Apache Tomcat calendar application

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jsp/cal/cal2.jsp in the calendar application in the examples web application in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the time parameter, related to "invalid HTML."

Find out more about CVE-2009-0781 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0781

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS (tomcat5) RHSA-2009:1562 2009-11-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (tomcat5) RHSA-2009:1164 2009-07-21

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