National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1554
Original release date:05/06/2009
Last revised:04/22/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ThemeServlet.java in Sun Woodstock 4.2, as used in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 string in the PATH_INFO, which is displayed on the 404 error page, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to theme/META-INF.
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: MLIST
Name: [cvs] 20090321 CVS update: /woodstock/webui/src/runtime/com/sun/webui/theme/ThemeServlet.java
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: woodstock-404page-xss(50336)
External Source: BID
Name: 34829
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090505 [DSECRG-09-038] Sun Glassfish Woodstock Project - Linked XSS Vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dev] 20090411 Re: [DSECRG] Sun Glassfish Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dev] 20090319 [DSECRG] Sun Glassfish Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35006
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 54220
External Source: MISC
Name: http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=138
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)