CVE-2026-50229

Publication date 29 June 2026

Last updated 16 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in the number guess example for Apache Tomcat. 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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tomcat6 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
tomcat7 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
tomcat8 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm6
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.13+esm2
tomcat9 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
tomcat10 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
tomcat11 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

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Notes

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xenial tomcat6 only builds libservlet2.5-java, not the Tomcat server binaries bionic tomcat7 only builds libservlet3.0-java, not the Tomcat server binaries

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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