CVE-2009-3579

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CookieDump.java sample application in Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.19 and 6.1.20 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Value parameter in a GET request to cookie/.

Affected products

Mortbay Jetty: 6.1.19, 6.1.20

References

http://www.coresecurity.com/content/jetty-persistent-xss
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507013/100/0/threaded
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/jetty-persistent-xss
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507013/100/0/threaded
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt

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