RHSA-2002:217

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2002-11-08 11:16 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:25
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update for Stronghold
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: Updated tomcat packages are now available for Stronghold Cross Platform to close a JSP source code exposure vulnerability.
Details: Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. A source code exposure vulnerability has been found that affects Tomcat versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.4 and 4.1.0 through 4.1.10. Using a carefully crafted request, a remote attacker can read the source code of any deployed JSP file. Stronghold Cross Platform shipped with Tomcat version 4.0.3 and is therefore susceptible to this vulnerability. All users are advised to upgrade to these errata packages containing Tomcat version 4.0.5 which is not vulnerable to this issue.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2002-1148

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.

Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Stronghold 4
Red Hat / Stronghold Cross Platform
 cpe:/a:redhat:stronghold:4 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important
References
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