CVE-2026-50229 (GCVE-0-2026-50229)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-29 20:36 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:50
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Title
Apache Tomcat: XSS in number guess example
Summary
Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in the number guess example for Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.22, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.55, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.118, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.109. Other versions that have reached end of support may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.23, 10.1.56 or 9.0.119, which fix the issue.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-30 12:49 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-80 - Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1085 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 , ≤ 11.0.22 (semver)
Affected: 10.1.0-M1 , ≤ 10.1.55 (semver)
Affected: 9.0.0.M1 , ≤ 9.0.118 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.100 (semver)
Affected: 7.0.0 , ≤ 7.0.109 (semver)
Unknown: 0 , < 7.0.0 (semver)
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Credits
Erichen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yashar Shahinzadeh Amirmohammad Safari
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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.