CVE-2008-1232
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 75.9%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that is used in the message argument to the HttpServletResponse.sendError method.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 75.9% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-4908)
- Published
- August 4, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-4908 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / tomcat
References
- http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/06/15/ca20090615-02-ca-service-desk-tomcat-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability.aspx(Broken Link)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31379(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31381(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31639(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31865(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31891(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32120(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32266(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33797(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33999(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34013(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35474(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36108(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37460(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57126(Broken Link)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4098(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm(Third Party Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495021/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504351/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505556/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30496(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020622(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0002.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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