CVE-2026-50229

Publication date 30 June 2026

Last updated 30 June 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
tomcat9 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
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
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
tomcat11 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

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

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