CVE-2002-1567 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script and steal cookies via a URL with encoded newlines followed by a request to a .jsp file whose name contains the script.

Published: 2003-09-19

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 41.7% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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
Github GHSA	GHSA-86fp-jgwm-wgj5	Apache Tomcat XSS Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.41657.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2002-q3/0482.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

History

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Apache Tomcat

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-09-19T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:29.121Z

Reserved: 2003-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1567

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-10-06T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2002-1567

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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