VRT 391,192 CVEs tracked · 15,442 in RASP scope · data as of 19 hours ago

CVE-2002-1567

6.8 Medium Mitigation candidate

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script and steal cookies via a URL with encoded newlines followed by a request to a .jsp file whose name contains the script.

CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

Exploitation Status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue carries this CVE. Somebody has published code a stranger can run.

CVSS E:P

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Exploit-DB; first seen 2002-08-21.
  • EPSS 27% chance in 30 days A model prediction, not an observation. Higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
Exploit-DB Apache Tomcat 4.1 - JSP Request Cross-Site Scripting 2002-08-21

Waratek Defense Posture

Mitigation candidate

A defect of the type ARMR addresses, with a fix path to work from and a working exploit already published. This is a claim on attention, not a scheduling commitment: no rule exists and none is scheduled.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified patch rule
  • Review automated inferred
  • Record active
Decided by open-source-maven : The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read
Finding This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

CVSS

6.8 v2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 1 metric

VRT selects the newest version's highest entry and publishes it as cvssScore, newest rather than largest because scores are not comparable across versions, and highest rather than first because the first entry is frequently a CNA placeholder scoring 0.0 over NVD's own analysis.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 2.0 6.8 no band published AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD Primary published

Affected Software & Releases

☕ Maven Library Packages

Artifact coordinates and fix boundaries from OSV.dev
Package CoordinateIntroducedFixedLast affected
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 4.1.0 4.1.29 unbounded

🖥️ Product CPEs & Version Ranges

2 product(s) over 2 version claims (uncapped)
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected Versions
nvd apache tomcat generic 4.1.0
osv org.apache.tomcat tomcat generic ≥ 4.1.0 and ＜ 4.1.29

References

URLTags
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@<dev.tomcat.apache.org> WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@<dev.tomcat.apache.org> WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@<dev.tomcat.apache.org> WEB
https://web.archive.org/web/20041213160616/http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2002-q3/0482.html WEB
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html WEB
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2002-q3/0482.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Timeline

Published 2003-10-06 Last modified 2026-06-16
Published2003-10-06By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.