CVE-2003-0866

Summary

CVECVE-2003-0866
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-11-17 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe Catalina org.apache.catalina.connector.http package in Tomcat 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via several requests that do not follow the HTTP protocol, which causes Tomcat to reject later requests.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.1 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.2 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.3 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.4 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.5 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 4.0.6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Sun Solaris 9 Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Pony Mail! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apache.org
Apache Tomcat® - Apache Tomcat 4.x vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 tomcat.apache.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-395-1 tomcat4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Sun Solaris 10 Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Pony Mail! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apache.org
Apache Tomcat Non-HTTP Request Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
#215506 - tomcat4: SECURITY: DoS attack by non-http request - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MITRE lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MITRE lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MITRE lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 996411 Java (Maven) Security Update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-7wj2-48c4-2684)

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