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CVE-2026-41293

Updated on 12 May 2026

Severity

9.8 Critical severity

Details

CVSS score
9.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

Versions Affected: Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.21 Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.54 Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.117 Older, unsupported versions may also be affected

Description: HTTP/2 request headers were not validated which may have triggered unexpected application behaviour if the application (quite reasonably) assumed that header value exposed through the Servlet API would be specification compliant.

Mitigation: Users of the affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations:

  • Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 11.0.22 or later
  • Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 10.1.55 or later
  • Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 9.0.118 or later

Credit: This issue was identified by Dawit Jeong (@dawitngoliath)

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Apache CXF , Apache Log4j , Apache Tapestry , Apache Tomcat , Debian 10 ELS , Spring , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS , camel , grails-core , logging-flume , thrift
Affected packages:
tomcat8 @ 8.5.100 (+5208 more)

Fixes