CVE-2002-2272

high Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Score
31.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
C
Published: December 31, 2002 (8535 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

Tomcat 4.0 through 4.1.12, using mod_jk 1.2.1 module on Apache 1.3 through 1.3.27, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (desynchronized communications) via an HTTP GET request with a Transfer-Encoding chunked field with invalid values.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

apache http serverapache tomcat

References

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