CVE-2002-0493
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2003-04-02 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 02:49
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
1.98% (0.81946)
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101709002410365&w=2Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.apachelabs.org/tomcat-dev/200108.mbox/%3C20010810000819.6350.qmail%40icarus.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9863.phpThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101709002410365&w=2Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.apachelabs.org/tomcat-dev/200108.mbox/%3C20010810000819.6350.qmail%40icarus.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9863.phpThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
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