National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0781
Original release date:03/09/2009
Last revised:07/07/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/17/2009)
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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/
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External Source: XF
Name: tomcat-cal2-xss(49213)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1856
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090306 [SECURITY] CVE-2009-0781 XSS in Apache Tomcat examples web application
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:138
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:136
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 263529
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35788
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35685
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:012
