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CVE-2002-1148

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The default servlet (org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet) in Tomcat 4.0.4 and 4.1.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to read source code for server files via a direct request to the servlet.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2-beta2 (+13)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103288242014253&w=2
• http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4758
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-170
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10175.php
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-217.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-218.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5786
• 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
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103288242014253&w=2
• http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4758

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