Improper Certificate Validation Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [8.5.0,9.0.113)[10.0.0-M1,10.1.50)[11.0.0-M1,11.0.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-15307780
  • published18 Feb 2026
  • disclosed16 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-66614  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote to version 9.0.113, 10.1.50, 11.0.15 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote is a Tomcat Connectors and HTTP parser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in the SNI extension, when client certificate authentication relies exclusively on the Connector (and is not enforced in the web application). The hostname provided via the SNI extension may be different from the hostname in the HTTP host header field.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1