CVE-2003-1172: Apache Cocoon

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 30.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the view-source sample file in Apache Software Foundation Cocoon 2.1 and 2.2 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter.

Affected products

• Apache Cocoon: version 2.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.2 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.