🛡️ CVE-2025-46701 — tomcat

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-178 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass for CGI scripts

Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Apache Tomcat's GCI servlet allows security constraint bypass of security constraints that apply to the pathInfo component of a URI mapped to the CGI servlet.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.6, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.40, from 9.0.0 through 9.0.104.

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, older, EOL versions

may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.7, 10.1.41 or 9.0.105, which fixes 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. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2025-46701 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (from 8.5.0)
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (from 8.5.0)
  • tomcat

Timeline and source

Published on 29 May 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

CVE-2025-46701 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CWE CWE-178
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-05-29
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 8.5.0
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 8.5.0
tomcat

References

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