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CVE-2002-0936

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0936 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Java Server Pages (JSP) engine of Apache Tomcat. Malicious web page owners can crash the web server by including a JSP page that invokes WPrinterJob().pageSetup(null,null). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, low complexity, and partial availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB (EDB-21534), and it has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21534 · Jun 12, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2685 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0095.html
lists.apache.org / thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
tomcat.apache.org / security-4.html
iss.net / security_center/static/9339.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/4995
ExploitVendor Advisory