CVE-2005-1754: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

JavaMail API 1.1.3 through 1.3, as used by Apache Tomcat 5.0.16, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the Download parameter. 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

• Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat: version 5.0.16 only
• Sun Javamail: version 1.1.3 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.2 only

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