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🛡️ CVE-2026-53404 — tomcat

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-670 OSV
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Description

Apache Tomcat: Bad ornext processing in RewriteValve

Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat's rewrite valve meant that if the first condition in an OR chain matched, subsequent non-OR conditions were skipped.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.22, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.55, from 9.0.0 through 9.0.118, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100. Other versions that have reached end of support may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.23, 10.1.56 or 9.0.119, 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 low, integrity low, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • 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: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-53404 is classified as CWE-670: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation. The control flow does not do what the logic intends, so a check never has the effect it appears to have.

Affected software

CVE-2026-53404 is recorded against 1 package.

  • tomcat

Timeline and source

Published on 6 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openwall.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

tomcat has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-670: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-670
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
tomcat — —

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