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ubuntu-cve-2013-5855

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-07-17 05:10

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Oracle Mojarra 2.2.x before 2.2.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.28 does not perform appropriate encoding when a (1) tag or (2) EL expression is used after a scriptor style block, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via application-specific vectors.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-5855	REPORT
	https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-3150	REPORT
	https://java.net/projects/mojarra/sources/svn/rev…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-5855	REPORT

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CVE-2013-5855 (GCVE-0-2013-5855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-17 02:36 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:22

Summary

Oracle Mojarra 2.2.x before 2.2.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.28 does not perform appropriate encoding when a (1) <h:outputText> tag or (2) EL expression is used after a scriptor style block, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via application-specific vectors.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

oracle

References

12 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65600	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC

Date Public

2014-07-15 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2013-5855 (GCVE-0-2013-5855)

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