CVE-2005-4838

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: through 5.5.6

References

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/13737
http://secunia.com/advisories/31493
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

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