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CVE-2002-0935
Apache Tomcat 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.1.3 beta, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource…
Medium5.0EPSS 7.9%
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- mitre
Description
Apache Tomcat 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.1.3 beta, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the server with null characters, which causes the working threads to hang.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.9% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatGHSA-xmf4-j3j7-xj7q (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- 20020620 KPMG-2002025: Apache Tomcat Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020620 [VulnWatch] KPMG-2002025: Apache Tomcat Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 5051 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 5067 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- tomcat-null-thread-dos(9396) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xmf4-j3j7-xj7q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .