CVE-2003-0043: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a, when used with JDK 1.3.1 or earlier, uses trusted privileges when processing the web.xml file, which could allow remote attackers to read portions of some files through the web.xml file.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.2.1 only; version 3.2.3 only; …

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