CVE-2008-1947

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.26 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter (aka the hostname attribute) to host-manager/html/add.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 5.5.9, 5.5.10, 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.5.13, 5.5.14 (+29)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=121244319501278&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30500
http://secunia.com/advisories/30592
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
http://secunia.com/advisories/31639
http://secunia.com/advisories/31865
http://secunia.com/advisories/31891

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