CVE-2002-0936 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0936?

CVE-2002-0936 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 31 Aug 2002. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Java Server Pages (JSP) engine in Tomcat allows web page owners to cause a denial of service (engine crash) on the web server via a JSP page that calls WPrinterJob().pageSetup(null,null).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0936?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Tomcat.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0936?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0936 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-0936 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-0936 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ppj6-9ppm-3h56.