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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2002-1533 json

Jetty Javascript Inclusion Vulnerability

published 2003-03-18 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-5mq8-h82p-wjf2 , EUVD-2022-1638

cvss
5.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jetty JSP servlet engine allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary HTML or script via an HTTP request to a .jsp file whose name contains the malicious script and some encoded linefeed characters (%0a).

Patch / fix

  • maven org.mortbay.jetty:jetty 4.1.1

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21875)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21875 Jetty 4.1 Servlet Engine - Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2002-09-28
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0337.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5821 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.mortbay.jetty:jetty
<4.1.1
4.1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page

References

Sources

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