Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting tomcat package, versions [,3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382451
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Feb 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Feb 2003

CVE-2003-0045  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a on certain Windows systems may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread hang and resource consumption) via a request for a JSP page containing an MS-DOS device name, such as aux.jsp.

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