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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2001-0590 json

Apache Tomcat Allows Source Disclosure

published 2001-08-02 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-x445-mmpw-7r4f , EUVD-2022-1862

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.0%
EPSS 11.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Apache Software Foundation Tomcat Servlet prior to 3.2.2 allows a remote attacker to read the source code to arbitrary 'jsp' files via a malformed URL request which does not end with an HTTP protocol specification (i.e. HTTP/1.0).

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-servlet-api 3.2.2

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20716)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20716 Apache Tomcat 3.0 - Directory Traversal remote, 2001-03-28
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0031.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-servlet-api
<3.2.2
3.2.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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