CVE-2026-66422
Improper Authorization vulnerability in Apache Tomcat cause by security-role-ref definitions being incorrectly used as role aliases within the Realm in additional to the correct usage with Request.isUserInRole(). This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.24, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.57, from 9.0.25 through 9.0.120. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: from 8.5.46 through 8.5.100, from 7.0.97 through 7.0.109. Other unsupported versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.25, 10.1.58 or 9.0.121, which fix the issue.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.57%
- CWE
- CWE-285
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-08-26
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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