CVE-2005-1753: Sun Javamail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ReadMessage.jsp in JavaMail API 1.1.3 through 1.3, as used by Apache Tomcat 5.0.16, allows remote attackers to view other users' e-mail attachments via a direct request to /mailboxesdir/username@domainname. NOTE: Sun and Apache dispute this issue. Sun states: "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.

Affected products

• Sun Javamail: version 1.1.3 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.