CVE-2009-1554

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ThemeServlet.java in Sun Woodstock 4.2, as used in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 string in the PATH_INFO, which is displayed on the 404 error page, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to theme/META-INF.

Affected products

Sun Woodstock: 4.2

References

http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=138
http://osvdb.org/54220
http://secunia.com/advisories/35006
http://www.nabble.com/-DSECRG--Sun-Glassfish-Multiple-Security-Vulnerabilities-p22595435.html
http://www.nabble.com/Re:--DSECRG--Sun-Glassfish-Multiple-Security-Vulnerabilities-p23002524.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503239/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34829
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50336
https://woodstock.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=cvs&msgNo=4041
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=138
http://osvdb.org/54220
http://secunia.com/advisories/35006

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