-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CVE-2009-0781: Apache Tomcat cross-site scripting vulnerability Severity: low Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.18 Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.27 Tomcat 4.1.0 to 4.1.39 Description: The calendar application in the examples contains invalid HTML which renders the XSS protection for the time parameter ineffective. An attacker can therefore perform an XSS attack using the time attribute. Mitigation: 6.0.x users should do one of the following: - remove the examples web application - apply this patch http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=750924&view=rev - upgrade to 6.0.19 when released 5.5.x users should do one of the following: - remove the examples web application - apply this patch http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=750928&view=rev - upgrade to 5.5.28 when released 4.1.x users should do one of the following: - remove the examples web application - apply this patch http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=750927&view=rev - upgrade to 4.1.40 when released Example: http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/cal/cal2.jsp?time=8am%20STYLE=xss:e/* */xpression(try{a=firstTime}catch(e){firstTime=1;alert('XSS')}); Credit: This issue was discovered by Deniz Cevik. References: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html The Apache Tomcat Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJsUexb7IeiTPGAkMRAnQkAKDSvIKgXQTCEOdYo0T1Ms0ze07qWQCgh2Af 7M0rD3B+d5vu90/ode27FLI= =Y8kB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----