CVE-2002-0935: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tomcat 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.1.3 beta, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the server with null characters, which causes the working threads to hang.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 4.0.3 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.