cve-2026-75973

HIGH CVSS 7.3 cvelistv5
Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. When Jakarta Authentication was configured with SimpleAuthConfigProvider as the default provider and multiple web application used that provider, the realm for the first web application to authenticate a request would be used for all web applications. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.25, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.59, from 9.0.0.M4 through 9.0.121. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100. Other unsupported versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.26, 10.1.60, 9.0.122, which fixes the issue.

Timeline
Published
2026-09-23 11:14 UTC
Last Modified
2026-09-23
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
Affected Products
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
Weaknesses (CWE)
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) CISA Coordinator v2.0.3
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Decision timestamp
2026-09-23T15:28:51.510257Z

What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.

References
Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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