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🛡️ CVE-2024-52316 — debian-linux

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-391 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Tomcat: Authentication bypass when using Jakarta Authentication API

Unchecked Error Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. If Tomcat is configured to use a custom Jakarta Authentication (formerly JASPIC) ServerAuthContext component which may throw an exception during the authentication process without explicitly setting an HTTP status to indicate failure, the authentication may not fail, allowing the user to bypass the authentication process. There are no known Jakarta Authentication components that behave in this way.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.0, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.30, from 9.0.0 through 9.0.95.

The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are

known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other EOL versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0, 10.1.31 or 9.0.96, which fix the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-52316 is classified as CWE-391: Unchecked Error Condition. [PLANNED FOR DEPRECATION. SEE MAINTENANCE NOTES AND CONSIDER CWE-252, CWE-248, OR CWE-1069.] Ignoring exceptions and other error conditions may allow an attacker to induce unexpected behavior unnoticed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-52316 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (from 11.0.0-M1 up to 11.0.1)
  • tomcat

Timeline and source

Published on 18 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org
security.netapp.com

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-391: Unchecked Error Condition) in other software:

CVE-2024-52316 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-391
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 11.0.0-M1 11.0.1
tomcat — —

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