CVE-2026-50229

🔶 medium

Summary

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.

CVSS Score

6.1

Medium

EPSS Score

0.4

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-06-29

First Seen: 2026-06-30

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 37.9% of all 344,912 vulnerabilities in our database.

#214,147

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 30, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Erichen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yashar Shahinzadeh Amirmohammad Safari

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-07-02

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-80

📦 Affected Products 5

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
apache	tomcat	Affected	> 10.1.0 < 10.1.56
apache	tomcat	Affected	> 11.0.0 < 11.0.23
apache	tomcat	Affected	< 7.0.109
apache	tomcat	Affected	> 8.5.0 < 8.5.100
apache	tomcat	Affected	> 9.0.0 < 9.0.119

🔗 References 2

https://lists.apache.org/thread/wlt2no8bw45zl1w8byop...

Vendor Advisory Mailing List

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/2...

Third Party Advisory

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