CVE-2002-1153: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Websphere 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with long HTTP headers, such as "Host".

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 4.0.3 only

Published 2002-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.