Medium [CVE-2026-34500] Apache Tomcat: CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios
This medium-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-34500 affecting Apache Tomcat, Tomcat.
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Summary
CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled and FFM is used in Apache Tomcat.
This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M14 through 11.0.20, from 10.1.22 through 10.1.53, from 9.0.92 through 9.0.116.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.21, 10.1.54 or 9.0.117, which fixes the issue.
- 11.0.0-M14 through 11.0.20
- 10.1.22 through 10.1.53
- 9.0.92 through 9.0.116.
- through 9.0.116
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- 11.0.21
- 10.1.54
- 9.0.117
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 11.0.21, 10.1.54, 9.0.117. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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