CVE-2008-1232: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 75.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that is used in the message argument to the HttpServletResponse.sendError method.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: from 4.1.0, up to and including 4.1.37; from 5.5.0, up to and including 5.5.26; from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.0.16

Published 2008-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.