CVE-2026-29145

Apache Tomcat, Apache Tomcat Native: OCSP checks sometimes soft-fail even when soft-fail is disabled

CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.71 % · percentile 54 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-04-09 19:20 UTC
Updated: 2026-04-10 18:11 UTC
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, Apache Tomcat Native. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.18, from 10.1.0-M7 through 10.1.52, from 9.0.83 through 9.0.115; Apache Tomcat Native: from 1.1.23 through 1.1.34, from 1.2.0 through 1.2.39, from 1.3.0 through 1.3.6, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.13. Users are recommended to upgrade to version Tomcat Native 1.3.7 or 2.0.14 and Tomcat 11.0.20, 10.1.53 and 9.0.116, which fix the issue.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-95jq-rwvf-vjx4 — Apache Tomcat: CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-21011
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-29145

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1032 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0958 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0934 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Atlassian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0933 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0715 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits SAP · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0621 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Atlassian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0556 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0500 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0418 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Apache Tomcat · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.83 < 9.0.116
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.1.1 < 10.1.53
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.0.0 < 11.0.20
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone13:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone14:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone15:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone16:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone17:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone18:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone19:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone20:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.0:milestone9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat_native:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.1.23 < 1.3.7
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat_native:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.0.0 < 2.0.14

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tomcat	affected 11.0.0-M1 ≤ 11.0.18 ; affected 10.1.0-M7 ≤ 10.1.52 ; affected 9.0.83 ≤ 9.0.115 ; unaffected 0 ≤ 8.5.100
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tomcat Native	affected 1.1.23 ≤ 1.1.34 ; affected 1.2.0 ≤ 1.2.39 ; affected 1.3.0 ≤ 1.3.6 ; affected 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.13

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD