CVE-2009-0781

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

9.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 94.8% 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.

Published

2009-03-09 21:00Z17 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 04:48Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2009-03-04

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

83c2d709f90816d3fafd323b53f7d2b9c604ed8a7c0cdb70f1b946afd3399ef6

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• tomcat.apache.orghttp://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:012http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• marc.infoHPSBUX02579http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=129070310906557&w=2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
• www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:136http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:136vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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• www.securityfocus.com20090306 [SECURITY] CVE-2009-0781 XSS in Apache Tomcat examples web applicationhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501538/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• 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%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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