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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2002-1148 json

Apache Tomcat Source Code Disclosure

published 2002-10-11 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-jxcv-v856-j5vg , EUVD-2022-1777

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.6%
EPSS 18.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The default servlet (org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet) in Tomcat 4.0.4 and 4.1.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to read source code for server files via a direct request to the servlet.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 4.0.5, 4.1.12

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1148 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Stronghold 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:217
  • Red Hat Stronghold 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:218

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21853)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

18.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21853 Apache Tomcat 3/4 - 'DefaultServlet' File Disclosure remote, 2002-09-24
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5786 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
>=4.0.0, <4.0.5
>=4.1.0, <4.1.12
4.0.5
4.1.12

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.