CVE-2002-2272

highpriority · track · 44EPSS 0.097 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · functional
Likely / severe?
9.68% (95th) EPSS
CVSS 7.8 · high
Is it mine?
37 products
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Who says so?
3 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

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7.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.9
v2.07highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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exploits (1)

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affected products (37)

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advisories (1)

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  • GHSA-pqr5-9v2j-44xgApache Tomcat DoS via Malicious Get Request2022-04-30ghsa · osvUS

    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.

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also known as (2)

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published 2002-12-31modified 2026-06-16
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references (6)

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