CVE-2017-9802
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Apache Sling Servlets Post
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.servlets.post | <2.3.22 | 2.3.22 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | sling_servlets_post | {"endIncluding":"2.3.20"} | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143758/Apache-Sling-Servlets-Post-2.3.20-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541024/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100284
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7041
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2f4b8333e44c6e7e0b00933bd4204ce64829952f60dbb6814f2cdf91%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9802
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2f4b8333e44c6e7e0b00933bd4204ce64829952f60dbb6814f2cdf91@%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.