CVE-2002-1567

Tomcat vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

26.8%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Tomcat

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2003-10-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 26.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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