CVE-2002-0493

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Apache Tomcat may be started without proper security settings if errors are encountered while reading the web.xml file, which could allow attackers to bypass intended restrictions.

Apache Tomcat may be started without proper security settings if errors are encountered while reading the web.xml file, which could allow attackers to bypass intended restrictions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-08-12 04:00:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-03-25 11:29:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation Tomcat

References

20020325 re: Tomcat Security Exposure

Mailing List

http://www.apachelabs.org/tomcat-dev/200108.mbox/%[email protected]%3E

Broken Link

tomcat-xml-bypass-restrictions(9863)

Third Party Advisory

[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/

[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/

[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/

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