CVE-2000-0672

Medium CVSS 5

Published 2000-07-20 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0672, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The default configuration of Jakarta Tomcat does not restrict access to the /admin context, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by directly calling the administrative servlets to add a context for the root directory.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0672

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