CVE-2002-1252: PeopleSoft PeopleTools

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Application Messaging Gateway for PeopleTools 8.1x before 8.19, as used in various PeopleSoft products, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via certain XML External Entities (XXE) fields in an HTTP POST request that is processed by the SimpleFileHandler handler.

Affected products

• PeopleSoft PeopleTools: version 8.14 only; version 8.15 only; version 8.16 only; version 8.17 only; version 8.18 only

Published 2003-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.