CVE-2025-46701 (GCVE-0-2025-46701)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-29 19:06 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:04
VLAI
Title
Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass for CGI scripts
Summary
Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Apache Tomcat's GCI servlet allows security constraint bypass of security constraints that apply to the pathInfo component of a URI mapped to the CGI servlet. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.6, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.40, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.104. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.7, 10.1.41 or 9.0.105, which fixes the issue.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-30 14:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-178 - Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1090 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: 11.0.0-M1 , ≤ 11.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 10.1.0-M1 , ≤ 10.1.40 (semver)
Affected: 9.0.0.M1 , ≤ 9.0.104 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.100 (semver)
Unknown: 3 , < 8.5.0 (semver)
Unknown: 10.0.0-M1 , ≤ 10.0.27 (semver)
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Credits
Greg K (https://github.com/gregk4sec)
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.