🛡️ CVE-2025-55754 on Maven (Root.io) — tomcat-catalina

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-55754 as tracked by Maven (Root.io), for the package tomcat-catalina. The fix is available in version 11.0.11-root.io.4; earlier versions remain affected.

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. 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:R/S:C/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: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• 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

ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-55754 is classified as CWE-150: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component.

Affected software

ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-55754 is recorded against 4 packages.

• io.root.org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (fixed in 10.1.34-root.io.7)
• io.root.org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (fixed in 11.0.11-root.io.4)
• org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (fixed in 10.1.34-aikido.7)
• org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (fixed in 11.0.11-aikido.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Other advisories for this package

io.root.org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-52520 (8.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2024-56337 (8.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-49125 (5.0 Medium, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2026-29145 (5.0 Medium, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-49124 (5.0 Medium, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-66614 (5.0 Medium, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2024-50379 (8.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-48988 (8.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-150: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences) in other software:

• CVE-2026-73035 (4.3 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-64654 (published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-39879 (7.1 High, published 20 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-49147 (7.5 High, published 8 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-56201 (8.8 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-6019 (2.0 Low, published 25 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-25996 (9.8 Critical, published 25 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-45803 (3.5 Low, published 19 May 2026)

CVE-2025-55754 on other distributions

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

Details

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