CVE-2002-1895 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1895?

CVE-2002-1895 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 28 Jun 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The servlet engine in Jakarta Apache Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0.4, when using IIS and the ajp1.3 connector, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of HTTP GET requests for an MS-DOS device such as AUX, LPT1, CON, or PRN.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1895?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Tomcat.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1895?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1895 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-2002-1895 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1895 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rffr-vjp4-vxh3.