CVE-2009-1524

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mort Bay Jetty before 6.1.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a directory listing request containing a ; (semicolon) character.

Affected products

Mortbay Jetty: through 6.1.16; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.3.0 (+319)

References

http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02282388
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-980
http://secunia.com/advisories/34975
http://secunia.com/advisories/40553
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34800
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1792
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499867
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02282388
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-980
http://secunia.com/advisories/34975
http://secunia.com/advisories/40553
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34800

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