CVE-2003-0045: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Jakarta Tomcat before 3.3.1a on certain Windows systems may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread hang and resource consumption) via a request for a JSP page containing an MS-DOS device name, such as aux.jsp.

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.