CVE-2026-55957
Missing Critical Step in Authentication vulnerability in Apache Tomcat when the JNDIRealm was configured to authenticate binds using GSSAPI allowed attackers to authenticate without provided the correct password. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.4, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.36, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.100, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.109. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.5, 10.1.37 or 9.0.101, which fixes the issue.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.3
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- EPSS probability
- 2.86%
- CWE
- CWE-304
- Published
- 2026-06-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-30
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
Weakness type
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