CVE-2026-29146

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Important Important severity What does this mean?
7.5 CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat. This Padding Oracle vulnerability, present in the EncryptInterceptor with its default configuration, could allow a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information. By exploiting weaknesses in the encryption padding, an attacker may be able to gain unauthorized access to data that should remain confidential.

Statement

Important: A padding oracle vulnerability exists in Apache Tomcat's EncryptInterceptor when using its default configuration. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information by exploiting weaknesses in the encryption padding. This vulnerability is not exploitable in any supported Red Hat Products. This is due to the fact EncryptInterceptor is a Tomcat component used to encrypt communication between different nodes in a cluster, however Tomcat's clustering is not tested and supported by Red Hat since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. More details about Tomcat's clustering in Red Hat supported products can be found at the following Solution page:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/67862

Mitigation

This vulnerability can be mitigated by removing the affected jar file from the tomcat installation. It can be achieved by running the following command as root:

systemctl stop tomcat
rm -fv /usr/share/java/tomcat/catalina-tribes.jar
systemctl start tomcat

It's important to notice if the Tomcat instance is configured to run with clustering, this may lead to errors when restarting the tomcat service. Red Hat's distributed Apache Tomcat should not be run with Clustering enabled, so make sure to disable such configuration before proceed with the mitigation if that's the case.

Additional information

External References

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 tomcat Fixed This content is not included.RHSA-2026:36788
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 tomcat9 Fixed RHSA-2026:36790
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support tomcat Fixed This content is not included.RHSA-2026:36787
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support tomcat9 Fixed This content is not included.RHSA-2026:36789
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6 Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support tomcat Fixed RHSA-2026:38505
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 tomcat Fixed This content is not included.RHSA-2026:37137
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pki-deps:10.6/pki-servlet-engine Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service tomcat Fixed RHSA-2026:37136
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions tomcat Fixed RHSA-2026:37136

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

Red Hat NVD cve.org
CVSS v3 Base Score 7.5 N/A 7.5
Attack Vector Network N/A Network
Attack Complexity Low N/A Low
Privileges Required None N/A None
User Interaction None N/A None
Scope Unchanged N/A Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High N/A High
Integrity Impact None N/A None
Availability Impact None N/A None

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

cve.org CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Red Hat's CVSS v3 score or Impact different from other vendors?

 For open source software shipped by multiple vendors, the CVSS base scores may vary for each vendor's version depending on the version they ship, how they ship it, the platform, and even how the software is compiled. This makes scoring of vulnerabilities difficult for third-party vulnerability databases such as NVD that only provide a single CVSS base score for each vulnerability. Red Hat scores reflect how a vulnerability affects our products specifically.

For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/762393.

My product is listed as "Under investigation" or "Affected", when will Red Hat release a fix for this vulnerability?
  • "Under investigation" doesn't necessarily mean that the product is affected by this vulnerability. It only means that our Analysis Team is still working on determining whether the product is affected and how it is affected.
  • "Affected" means that our Analysis Team has determined that this product is affected by this vulnerability and might release a fix to address this in the near future.

What can I do if my product is listed as "Will not fix"?

 A "will not fix" status means that a fix for an affected product version is not planned or not possible due to complexity, which may create additional risk.

Available options depend mostly on the Impact of the vulnerability and the current Life Cycle phase of your product. Overall, you have the following options:
  • Upgrade to a supported product version that includes a fix for this vulnerability (recommended).
  • Apply a mitigation (if one exists).
  • Open a This content is not included.support case to request a prioritization of releasing a fix for this vulnerability.

What can I do if my product is listed as "Fix deferred"?

 A deferred status means that a fix for an affected product version is not guaranteed due to higher-priority development work.

Available options depend mostly on the Impact of the vulnerability and the current Life Cycle phase of your product. Overall, you have the following options:
  • Apply a mitigation (if one exists).
  • Open a This content is not included.support case to request a prioritization of releasing a fix for this vulnerability.
  • Red Hat Engineering focuses on addressing high-priority issues based on their complexity or limited lifecycle support. Therefore, lower-priority issues will not receive immediate fixes.

What is a mitigation?

 A mitigation is an action that can be taken to reduce the impact of a security vulnerability, without deploying any fixes.

I have a Red Hat product but it is not in the above list, is it affected?

 The listed products were found to include one or more of the components that this vulnerability affects. These products underwent a thorough evaluation to determine their affectedness by this vulnerability. Note that layered products (such as container-based offerings) that consume affected components from any of the products listed in this table may be affected and are not represented.

Why is my security scanner reporting my product as vulnerable to this vulnerability even though my product version is fixed or not affected?

 In order to maintain code stability and compatibility, Red Hat usually does not rebase packages to entirely new versions. Instead, we backport fixes and new features to an older version of the package we distribute. This can result in some security scanners that only consider the package version to report the package as vulnerable. To avoid this, we suggest that you use an approved vulnerability scanner from our This content is not included.Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification program.

My product is listed as "Out of Support Scope". What does this mean?

 When a product is listed as "Out of Support Scope", it means a vulnerability with the impact level assigned to this CVE is no longer covered by its current support lifecycle phase. The product has been identified to contain the impacted component, but analysis to determine whether it is affected or not by this vulnerability was not performed. The product should be assumed to be affected. Customers are advised to apply any mitigation options documented on this page, consider removing or disabling the impacted component, or upgrade to a supported version of the product that has an update available.