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CVE-2009-4612 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WebApp JSP Snoop page in Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.x through 6.1.21 allow remote attack…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2009-4577

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WebApp JSP Snoop page in Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.x through 6.1.21 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to the default URI under (1) jspsnoop/, (2) jspsnoop/ERROR/, and (3) jspsnoop/IOException/, and possibly the PATH_INFO to (4) snoop.jsp.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2009-4612 updated

jetty: multiple XSS and information leaks in demo servlets

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33564)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33564 Jetty 6.1.x - JSP Snoop Page Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities webapps, 2009-10-24
  • ush.it http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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