CVE-2009-2696: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jsp/cal/cal2.jsp in the calendar application in the examples web application in Apache Tomcat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Desktop Workstation 5, and Linux Desktop 5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the time parameter, related to "invalid HTML." NOTE: this is due to a missing fix for CVE-2009-0781.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: up to and including 4.1.39

Published 2010-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.