Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity Affecting tomcat:catalina package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-TOMCAT-16691226
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed12 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2026

CVE-2026-43513  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-178  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

tomcat:catalina is a library that contains Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in the LockOutRealm function. An attacker can bypass account lockout protections by submitting usernames with different letter casing.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1