CVE-2009-0038

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web administration console in Apache Geronimo Application Server 2.1 through 2.1.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name, (2) ip, (3) username, or (4) description parameter to console/portal/Server/Monitoring; or (5) the PATH_INFO to the default URI under console/portal/.

Affected products

Apache Geronimo: 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3

References

http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=119
http://geronimo.apache.org/21x-security-report.html#2.1.xSecurityReport-214
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4597
http://secunia.com/advisories/34715
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502734/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34562
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1089
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=119
http://geronimo.apache.org/21x-security-report.html#2.1.xSecurityReport-214
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4597
http://secunia.com/advisories/34715
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502734/100/0/threaded

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