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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2026-42498

Severity High
Score 7.3/10

Summary

Exposure of HTTP Authentication Header to unexpected hosts during WebSocket authentication vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.21, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.54, from 9.0.2 through 9.0.117, from 8.5.24 through 8.5.100, from 7.0.83 through 7.0.109. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.22, 10.1.55 or 9.0.118, which fix the issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • LOW
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CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published