CVE-2025-46701
Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass for CGI scripts
Description
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 through 11.0.6, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.40, from 9.0.0 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.
How to fix CVE-2025-46701
To remediate CVE-2025-46701, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later
- —upgrade to 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 or later
- —upgrade to 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 or later
- —upgrade to 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 or later
- —upgrade to 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 or later
- —upgrade to 9.0.107-0+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later
- —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later
Is CVE-2025-46701 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (8)
- from 0, < 9.0.105, >= 10.0.0, < 10.1.41, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.7
- from 0, < 10.1.52-1~deb12u1
- from 0, < 10.1.52-1~deb12u1
- from 0, < 11.0.15-1~deb13u1
- from 0, < 11.0.15-1~deb13u1
- from 0, < 9.0.107-0+deb11u1
- >= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.105
- >= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.105
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |