CVE-2005-1753

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

ReadMessage.jsp in JavaMail API 1.1.3 through 1.3, as used by Apache Tomcat 5.0.16, allows remote attackers to view other users' e-mail attachments via a direct request to /mailboxesdir/username@domainname. NOTE: Sun and Apache dispute this issue. Sun states: "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.

Affected products

Sun Javamail: 1.1.3, 1.2, 1.3

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111697083812367&w=2
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111697083812367&w=2
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

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