Vulnerability record · CVE-2009-2696 · published 5 August 2010

CVE-2009-2696: Apache tomcat cross-site scripting vulnerability

Apache · Tomcat

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.

4.3 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 5.0% · top 8.1% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

4.3CVSS 2.0 base score

5.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

8References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Tomcat Apache

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/40813	Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0580.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1986
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616717	Issue Tracking
http://secunia.com/advisories/40813	Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0580.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1986
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616717	Issue Tracking

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2009-2696), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.