CVE-2025-46701

Description

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. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.7, 10.1.41 or 9.0.105, which fixes the issue.

How to fix CVE-2025-46701

To remediate CVE-2025-46701, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later
• —upgrade to 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 or later
• —upgrade to 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.107-0+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.105 or later

Is CVE-2025-46701 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (8)

• from 0, < 9.0.105, >= 10.0.0, < 10.1.41, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.7
• from 0, < 10.1.52-1~deb12u1
• from 0, < 10.1.52-1~deb12u1
• from 0, < 11.0.15-1~deb13u1
• from 0, < 11.0.15-1~deb13u1
• from 0, < 9.0.107-0+deb11u1
• >= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.105
• >= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.105

CVSS scores

References (15)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46701
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46701
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/tomcat
• WEBgithub.com/apache/tomcat/commit/0f01966eb60015d975525019e12a087f05ebf01a