CVE-2002-2009: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tomcat 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to obtain the web root path via HTTP requests for JSP files preceded by (1) +/, (2) >/, (3) </, and (4) %20/, which leaks the pathname in an error message.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 4.0.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.