CVE-2007-2449

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 77.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in certain JSP files in the examples web application in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through 4.0.6, 4.1.0 through 4.1.36, 5.0.0 through 5.0.30, 5.5.0 through 5.5.24, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.13 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the portion of the URI after the ';' character, as demonstrated by a URI containing a "snp/snoop.jsp;" sequence.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: through 4.1.36; 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+66)

References

http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/36080
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26076
http://secunia.com/advisories/27037
http://secunia.com/advisories/27727
http://secunia.com/advisories/29392
http://secunia.com/advisories/30802

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