CVE-2003-0043 Affecting tomcat package, versions [,3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382401
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Feb 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Feb 2003

CVE-2003-0043  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a, when used with JDK 1.3.1 or earlier, uses trusted privileges when processing the web.xml file, which could allow remote attackers to read portions of some files through the web.xml file.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1