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CVE-2003-0045

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-02-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a on certain Windows systems may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread hang and resource consumption) via a request for a JSP page containing an MS-DOS device name, such as aux.jsp.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.3 (+3)

References

• http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.3.1a/RELEASE-NOTES-3.3.1a.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12102
• http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.3.1a/RELEASE-NOTES-3.3.1a.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12102

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