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Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-55957
Type: advisorySources: OSV
* SECURITY UPDATE: JNDIRealm bypass when configured with GSSAPI authentication - HttpServletRequest.login(username, password) calls validated credentials via the GSSAPI SASL mechanism instead of a plain LDAP bind, silently accepting arbitrary passwords - debian/patches/CVE-2026-55957.patch: preserve DirContext environment, drop the GSSAPI SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION setting before the user-credential bind, and restore it in a finally block via the existing restoreEnvironmentParameter() helper - CVE-2026-55957
- Products
- libtomcat9-embed-java, libtomcat9-java, tomcat9, tomcat9-admin, tomcat9-common, tomcat9-docs, tomcat9-examples, tomcat9-user
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-55957
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: JNDIRealm bypass when configured with GSSAPI authentication - HttpServletRequest.login(username, password) calls validated credentials via the GSSAPI SASL mechanism instead of a plain LDAP bind, silently accepting arbitrary passwords - debian/patches/CVE-2026-55957.patch: preserve DirContext environment, drop the GSSAPI SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION setting before the user-credential bind, and restore it in a finally block via the existing restoreEnvironmentParameter() helper - CVE-2026-55957
osv:CLSA-2026-1785309072
libtomcat9-embed-java
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
libtomcat9-java
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9-admin
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9-common
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9-docs
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9-examples
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
tomcat9-user
Fixed versions: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12+tuxcare.els6
Complete source record
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