CVE-2000-0672 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The default configuration of Jakarta Tomcat does not restrict access to the /admin context, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by directly calling the administrative servlets to add a context for the root directory.

Published: 2001-01-22

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 3.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:3.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-0668	The default configuration of Jakarta Tomcat does not restrict access to the /admin context, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by directly calling the administrative servlets to add a context for the root directory.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03158.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0309.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1548
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5160

History

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Subscriptions

Apache Tomcat

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-01-22T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:28:40.970Z

Reserved: 2000-08-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0672

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-07-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0672

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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