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medium 4.3

CVE-2010-2103 json

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Apache Axis2

published 2010-05-27 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-23x8-j7hm-5xwf , EUVD-2022-1898

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
34.9%
EPSS 34.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in axis2-admin/axis2-admin/engagingglobally in the administration console in Apache Axis2/Java 1.4.1, 1.5.1, and possibly other versions, as used in SAP Business Objects 12, 3com IMC, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the modules parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.axis2.wso2:axis2 1.6.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2103 updated cvss 4.9

Axis2: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the adminstration console

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 axis Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 axis, axis-manual, axis-javadoc
    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-12689)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

34.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-12689 Apache Axis2 Administration Console - (Authenticated) Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2010-05-21
  • procheckup.com http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-03 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40327 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • osvdb.org http://osvdb.org/64844 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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.axis2.wso2:axis2
>=1.4.1, <1.6.0
1.6.0

Classification

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

References

Sources

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