CVE-2009-2696

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jsp/cal/cal2.jsp in the calendar application in the examples web application in Apache Tomcat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Desktop Workstation 5, and Linux Desktop 5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the time parameter, related to "invalid HTML." NOTE: this is due to a missing fix for CVE-2009-0781.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: through 4.1.39

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/40813
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0580.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1986
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616717
http://secunia.com/advisories/40813
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0580.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1986
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616717

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