{"api_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-07-23T11:14:38+00:00","cve":"CVE-2005-4838","urls":{"html":"https://cve.report/CVE-2005-4838","api":"https://cve.report/api/cve/CVE-2005-4838.json","docs":"https://cve.report/api","cve_org":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4838","nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4838"},"summary":{"title":"CVE-2005-4838","description":"Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp.  NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries.","state":"PUBLISHED","assigner":"redhat","published_at":"2005-12-31 05:00:00","updated_at":"2025-04-03 01:03:51"},"problem_types":["CWE-79","n/a"],"metrics":[{"version":"2.0","source":"nvd@nist.gov","type":"Primary","score":"4.3","severity":"","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","data":{"version":"2.0","vectorString":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","baseScore":4.3,"accessVector":"NETWORK","accessComplexity":"MEDIUM","authentication":"NONE","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"PARTIAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE"}}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31493","name":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31493","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Red Hat update for Red Hat Network Satellite Server - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html","name":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34879","name":"http://www.osvdb.org/34879","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"","httpstatus":"-1","archivestatus":"0"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/12721","name":"http://www.osvdb.org/12721","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"","httpstatus":"-1","archivestatus":"0"},{"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html","name":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Apache Tomcat® - Apache Tomcat 4.x vulnerabilities","mime":"text/xml","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467","name":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"IBM X-Force Exchange","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793","name":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"SecurityTracker.com Archives - Jakarta Tomcat Manager Input Validation Holes Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html","name":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Apache Tomcat - Apache Tomcat 5 vulnerabilities","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html","name":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"[Full-disclosure] Apache Tomcat remote xss","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"404","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2","name":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html","name":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"access.redhat.com","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"-1","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/13737","name":"http://secunia.com/advisories/13737","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"title":"Secunia - Advisories - Apache Tomcat \"Tomcat Manager\" Cross-Site Scripting","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2","name":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"'[PATCH jakarta-servletapi-5] Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6' - MARC","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34878","name":"http://www.osvdb.org/34878","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"","httpstatus":"-1","archivestatus":"0"},{"url":"http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt","name":"http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt","refsource":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"text/plain","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"MLIST:[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/","refsource":"MITRE","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"MLIST:[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/","refsource":"MITRE","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E","name":"MLIST:[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/","refsource":"MITRE","tags":[],"title":"Pony Mail!","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4838","name":"CVE Program record","refsource":"CVE.ORG","tags":["canonical"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4838","name":"NVD vulnerability detail","refsource":"NVD","tags":["canonical","analysis"]}],"affected":[{"source":"CNA","vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","version":"affected n/a","platforms":[]}],"timeline":[],"solutions":[],"workarounds":[],"exploits":[],"credits":[],"nvd_cpes":[{"cve_year":"2005","cve_id":"4838","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"5.5.6","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"apache","cpe5":"tomcat","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"}],"vendor_comments":[],"enrichments":{"kev":null,"epss":null,"legacy_qids":[]},"source_records":{"cve_program":{"containers":{"adp":[{"providerMetadata":{"dateUpdated":"2024-08-08T00:01:23.311Z","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","shortName":"CVE"},"references":[{"tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"],"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html"},{"name":"tomcat-functions-xss(36467)","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_XF","x_transferred"],"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467"},{"name":"20070906 Apache Tomcat remote xss","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_FULLDISC","x_transferred"],"url":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html"},{"name":"RHSA-2008:0630","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"],"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html"},{"name":"34878","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB","x_transferred"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34878"},{"name":"12721","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB","x_transferred"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/12721"},{"name":"31493","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA","x_transferred"],"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31493"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20050103 [PATCH jakarta-servletapi-5] Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"],"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2"},{"name":"34879","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB","x_transferred"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34879"},{"name":"1012793","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_SECTRACK","x_transferred"],"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793"},{"name":"13737","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA","x_transferred"],"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/13737"},{"tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"],"url":"http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt"},{"tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"],"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html"},{"name":"RHSA-2008:0261","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"],"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20050103 Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"],"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"}],"title":"CVE Program Container"}],"cna":{"affected":[{"product":"n/a","vendor":"n/a","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"n/a"}]}],"datePublic":"2005-01-03T00:00:00.000Z","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp.  NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries."}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"dateUpdated":"2020-02-13T16:08:01.000Z","orgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","shortName":"redhat"},"references":[{"tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html"},{"name":"tomcat-functions-xss(36467)","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_XF"],"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467"},{"name":"20070906 Apache Tomcat remote xss","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_FULLDISC"],"url":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.html"},{"name":"RHSA-2008:0630","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"],"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html"},{"name":"34878","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34878"},{"name":"12721","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/12721"},{"name":"31493","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA"],"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31493"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20050103 [PATCH jakarta-servletapi-5] Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"],"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110477195116951&w=2"},{"name":"34879","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB"],"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/34879"},{"name":"1012793","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_SECTRACK"],"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1012793"},{"name":"13737","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA"],"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/13737"},{"tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/jakarta556_xss.txt"},{"tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html"},{"name":"RHSA-2008:0261","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"],"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20050103 Re: Fwd: XSS in Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"],"url":"http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110476790331536&w=2"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"name":"[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"],"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"}]}},"cveMetadata":{"assignerOrgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","assignerShortName":"redhat","cveId":"CVE-2005-4838","datePublished":"2007-04-25T21:00:00.000Z","dateReserved":"2007-04-25T00:00:00.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-08-08T00:01:23.311Z","state":"PUBLISHED"},"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1"},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2005-12-31 05:00:00","lastModifiedDate":"2025-04-03 01:03:51","problem_types":["CWE-79","n/a"],"metrics":{"cvssMetricV2":[{"source":"nvd@nist.gov","type":"Primary","cvssData":{"version":"2.0","vectorString":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","baseScore":4.3,"accessVector":"NETWORK","accessComplexity":"MEDIUM","authentication":"NONE","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"PARTIAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE"},"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","exploitabilityScore":8.6,"impactScore":2.9,"acInsufInfo":false,"obtainAllPrivilege":false,"obtainUserPrivilege":false,"obtainOtherPrivilege":false,"userInteractionRequired":true}]},"configurations":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionEndIncluding":"5.5.6","matchCriteriaId":"AF73578B-8EF3-476D-B918-C0C2025F72CF"}]}]}]},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2005","CveId":"4838","Ordinal":"1","Title":"CVE-2005-4838","CVE":"CVE-2005-4838","Year":"2005"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2005","CveId":"4838","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp.  NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries.","Type":"Description","Title":"CVE-2005-4838"},{"CveYear":"2005","CveId":"4838","Ordinal":"2","NoteData":"2007-04-25","Type":"Other","Title":"Published"},{"CveYear":"2005","CveId":"4838","Ordinal":"3","NoteData":"2020-02-13","Type":"Other","Title":"Modified"}]}}}