National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2166
Original release date:05/13/2008
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search module in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 before SP9 and 7.0 before Update 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown parameters in index.jsp.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019987
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 29087
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 231467
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: javasystem-search-xss(42263)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1455
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30133
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)