01 Record
CVE-2005-4838
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1)
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-04-25 21:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 00:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-04-25
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 60a8acf7c3a2f815cb81ccac45a49bf7bc2112432fdae40f1e7b845cb439d753
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- tomcat.apache.orghttp://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comtomcat-functions-xss(36467)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467
- lists.grok.org.uk20070906 Apache Tomcat remote xsshttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0630http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html
- www.osvdb.org34878http://www.osvdb.org/34878
- www.osvdb.org12721http://www.osvdb.org/12721
- secunia.com31493http://secunia.com/advisories/31493
- marc.info[tomcat-dev] 20050103 [PATCH jakarta-servletapi-5] Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2
- www.osvdb.org34879http://www.osvdb.org/34879
- securitytracker.com1012793http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793
- secunia.com13737http://secunia.com/advisories/13737
- www.oliverkarow.dehttp://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt
- tomcat.apache.orghttp://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0261http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
- marc.info[tomcat-dev] 20050103 Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E