cve-2003-0043
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-09-01 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:43
Severity
Summary
Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a, when used with JDK 1.3.1 or earlier, uses trusted privileges when processing the web.xml file, which could allow remote attackers to read portions of some files through the web.xml file.
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/an/a
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