CVE-2026-75973 PUBLISHED

Apache Tomcat: Cross-context authentication mix-up with Jakarta Authentication configured

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 18.08.2026 Published: 23.09.2026 Updated: 23.09.2026

Improper Authentication vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. When Jakarta Authentication was configured with SimpleAuthConfigProvider as the default provider and multiple web application used that provider, the realm for the first web application to authenticate a request would be used for all web applications.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.25, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.59, from 9.0.0.M4 through 9.0.121.

The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100. Other unsupported versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.26, 10.1.60, 9.0.122, which fixes the issue.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Tomcat
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.25 (incl.)
  • affected from 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.59 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0.M4 to 9.0.121 (incl.)
  • affected from 8.5.0 to 8.5.100 (incl.)
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0.109 (incl.)

Credits

  • 0xCc.zhang finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication CWE