CVE-2019-17091 Cross-site Scripting in Eclipse Mojarra

What is CVE-2019-17091?

CVE-2019-17091 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Oracle Application Testing Suite, published on 2 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

faces/context/PartialViewContextImpl.java in Eclipse Mojarra, as used in Mojarra for Eclipse EE4J before 2.3.10 and Mojarra JavaServer Faces before 2.2.20, allows Reflected XSS because a client window field is mishandled.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17091?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.glassfish:jakarta.faces and org.glassfish:javax.faces. It affects 23 products.

Products include Eclipse Mojarra, Oracle Application Testing Suite, Oracle Banking Enterprise Product Manufacturing, Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router, Oracle Communications Network Integrity, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management and 17 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17091?

Upgrade org.glassfish:jakarta.faces to 2.3.10 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2019-17091 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17091 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Application Testing Suite

• CVE-2026-46581 Server-side request forgery in Eclipse Mojarra High 7.5
• CVE-2018-14371 Path Traversal in Eclipse Mojarra High 7.5
• CVE-2020-6950 Directory traversal in Eclipse Mojarra Medium 6.5

All Oracle Application Testing Suite vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rjhx-c9qh-qh8f.