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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Apache Tomcat

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 21, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.32
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.30
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.6

Patched versions

5.5.32
6.0.30
7.0.6

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTML Manager Interface in Apache Tomcat 5.5 before 5.5.32, 6.0 before 6.0.30, and 7.0 before 7.0.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, as demonstrated via the display-name tag.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 19, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Reviewed Jul 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 21, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(97th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2011-0013

GHSA ID

GHSA-3p86-xgrq-m6p6

Source code

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