CVE-2005-4838

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp. NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.07788

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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Affected Products & Versions

apache tomcat<= 5.5.6

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productmediumTomcat WebServer Logs Deleted

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4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published to NVD31 Dec 2005 · 05:00 AM

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Vendor Advisories

rhsaRHSA-2008:0261Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0524Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0630Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2007:0340Moderate

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html

http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/13737PatchVendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/31493

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http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt

http://www.osvdb.org/12721

http://www.osvdb.org/34878

http://www.osvdb.org/34879

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

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