CVE-2002-1895

The servlet engine in Jakarta Apache Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0.4, when using IIS and the ajp1.3 connector, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of HTTP GET requests for an MS-DOS device such as AUX, LPT1, CON, or PRN.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2002-12-31

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Tomcat (Apache)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0020.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10348.php
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.or…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.or…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.o…