Apache Tomcat Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2009-2696 - Vulnerability Database

Apache Tomcat Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2009-2696

Medium

Reference: CVE-2009-2696

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2696

Title: Apache Tomcat Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability

Overview:

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 quotinvalid HTML.quot NOTE: this is due to a missing fix for CVE-2009-0781.