Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization Affecting tomcat-docs-webapp package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TOMCATDOCSWEBAPP-17909131
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed29 Jun 2026

Introduced: 29 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-55956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-551  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 tomcat-docs-webapp.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-docs-webapp package and not the tomcat-docs-webapp package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Improper Authorization vulnerability in Apache Tomcat leads to security constraints specified for the default servlet ignoring any method or method omission configured as part of the constraint.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.22, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.55, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.118, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.100, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.109. Other versions that have reached end of support may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.23, 10.1.56 or 9.0.119, which fix the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1