Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity Affecting tomcat9-docs-webapp package, versions <1:9.0.105-1.amzn2023.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-TOMCAT9DOCSWEBAPP-10498037
  • published24 Jun 2025
  • disclosed29 May 2025

Introduced: 29 May 2025

CVE-2025-46701  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-178  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 tomcat9-docs-webapp to version 1:9.0.105-1.amzn2023.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-1030.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9-docs-webapp package and not the tomcat9-docs-webapp package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.7, 10.1.41 or 9.0.105, which fixes the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1