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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-13 10:20

Modified

2026-04-13 10:42

Summary

Apache Tomcat: OCSP checks sometimes soft-fail with FFM even when soft-fail is disabled

Details

CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled and FFM is used in Apache Tomcat.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.20, from 10.1.22 through 10.1.53, from 9.0.92 through 9.0.116.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.21, 10.1.54 or 9.0.117, which fixes the issue.

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  "id": "BIT-tomcat-2026-34500",
  "modified": "2026-04-13T10:42:00.723Z",
  "published": "2026-04-13T10:20:02.205Z",
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}

CVE-2026-34500 (GCVE-0-2026-34500)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 19:36 – Updated: 2026-04-10 14:22

Title

Apache Tomcat: OCSP checks sometimes soft-fail with FFM even when soft-fail is disabled

Summary

CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled and FFM is used in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M14 through 11.0.20, from 10.1.22 through 10.1.53, from 9.0.92 through 9.0.116. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.21, 10.1.54 or 9.0.117, which fixes the issue.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

https://lists.apache.org/thread/7rcl4zdxryc8hy3ht…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tomcat	Affected: 11.0.0-M14 , ≤ 11.0.20 (semver) Affected: 10.1.22 , ≤ 10.1.53 (semver) Affected: 9.0.92 , ≤ 9.0.116 (semver)

Credits

Haruki Oyama (Waseda University)

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CVE-2026-34500 (GCVE-0-2026-34500)

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