CVE-2005-1753 (GCVE-0-2005-1753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-05-21 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 21:59 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
ReadMessage.jsp in JavaMail API 1.1.3 through 1.3, as used by Apache Tomcat 5.0.16, allows remote attackers to view other users' e-mail attachments via a direct request to /mailboxesdir/username@domainname. NOTE: Sun and Apache dispute this issue. Sun states: "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111697083812367&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2005-05-24 00:00
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