Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Apache Tomcat addressing two vulnerabilities: a bypass of rules in the Rewrite Valve (CVE-2025-31651) and a directory traversal via rewrite with possible remote code execution (CVE-2025-55752). These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 2 and related packages. The advisory rates the impact as Important and provides updated packages to remediate the vulnerabilities.
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Technical Summary
This advisory covers two security vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat as packaged by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. The first vulnerability (CVE-2025-31651) involves a bypass of rules in the Rewrite Valve component. The second vulnerability (CVE-2025-55752) involves directory traversal via rewrite functionality, which could potentially lead to remote code execution. Red Hat has released updated Tomcat packages (version 9.0.87-1.el9_2.7) that address these issues. The advisory references Red Hat Bugzilla entries BZ-2362782 and BZ-2406591 for the respective CVEs and directs users to official update instructions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass rewrite rules and perform directory traversal attacks, potentially leading to remote code execution on affected systems running Apache Tomcat. This could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected server. The advisory classifies the security impact as Important, indicating a high risk but not critical.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Tomcat packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:23046 and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the provided patches.
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update
Description
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Apache Tomcat addressing two vulnerabilities: a bypass of rules in the Rewrite Valve (CVE-2025-31651) and a directory traversal via rewrite with possible remote code execution (CVE-2025-55752). These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 2 and related packages. The advisory rates the impact as Important and provides updated packages to remediate the vulnerabilities.
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Technical Analysis
This advisory covers two security vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat as packaged by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. The first vulnerability (CVE-2025-31651) involves a bypass of rules in the Rewrite Valve component. The second vulnerability (CVE-2025-55752) involves directory traversal via rewrite functionality, which could potentially lead to remote code execution. Red Hat has released updated Tomcat packages (version 9.0.87-1.el9_2.7) that address these issues. The advisory references Red Hat Bugzilla entries BZ-2362782 and BZ-2406591 for the respective CVEs and directs users to official update instructions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass rewrite rules and perform directory traversal attacks, potentially leading to remote code execution on affected systems running Apache Tomcat. This could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected server. The advisory classifies the security impact as Important, indicating a high risk but not critical.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Tomcat packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:23046 and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the provided patches.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:23046
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-55752"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a2929b98dd33fbd8517f4cd
Added to database: 6/10/2026, 9:09:13 AM
Last enriched: 6/10/2026, 9:11:31 AM
Last updated: 6/10/2026, 10:33:45 AM
Views: 2
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