MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-86243 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 23, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.4%

Buffer over-read vulnerability in Apache Tomcat Native during the TLS handshake permits a malicious user to trigger a DoS via a JVM crash. This issue affects Apache Tomcat Native: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.15, from 1.3.0 through 1.3.8. Earlier, unsupported versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.3.9 or 2.0.16, which fix the issue.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High

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