Issued at: 2026-09-19
Updated at: 2026-09-20
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:68651, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Moderate: tomcat9 security update
Description
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
Security Fix(es):
* Apache Tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Improper Input Validation vulnerability due to incomplete fix (CVE-2026-32990)
* tomcat-coyote: Apache Tomcat: Authentication bypass via digest authentication (CVE-2026-43512)
* tomcat-coyote: Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 request headers not validated (CVE-2026-41293)
* tomcat-coyote: Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure due to HTTP Authentication Header exposure during WebSocket authentication. (CVE-2026-42498)
* tomcat-coyote: tomcat: Improper Authorization allows security bypass (CVE-2026-43515)
* tomcat-catalina: Apache Tomcat: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in LockOutRealm (CVE-2026-43513)
* tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass via improper URL encoding in rewrite valve (CVE-2026-59083)
* tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Insufficient documentation for EncryptInterceptor may lead to insecure configurations (CVE-2026-59084)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.