CVE-2026-29145 PUBLISHED

Apache Tomcat, Apache Tomcat Native: OCSP checks sometimes soft-fail even when soft-fail is disabled

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 04.03.2026 Published: 09.04.2026 Updated: 09.04.2026

CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, Apache Tomcat Native.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.18, from 10.1.0-M7 through 10.1.52, from 9.0.83 through 9.0.115; Apache Tomcat Native: from 1.1.23 through 1.1.34, from 1.2.0 through 1.2.39, from 1.3.0 through 1.3.6, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.13.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version Tomcat Native 1.3.7 or 2.0.14 and Tomcat 11.0.20, 10.1.53 and 9.0.116, which fix the issue.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Tomcat
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.18 (incl.)
  • affected from 10.1.0-M7 to 10.1.52 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.83 to 9.0.115 (incl.)
  • unaffected from 0 to 8.5.100 (incl.)
Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Tomcat Native
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.1.23 to 1.1.34 (incl.)
  • affected from 1.2.0 to 1.2.39 (incl.)
  • affected from 1.3.0 to 1.3.6 (incl.)
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 2.0.13 (incl.)

Credits

  • gregk4sec (https://github.com/gregk4sec) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled