Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-59083 — tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass via improper URL encoding in rewrite valve CVE-2026-59084 — tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Insufficient documentation for EncryptInterceptor may lead to insecure configurations
🎯 Affected products3
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- tomcat10-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- tomcat10-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://images.redhat.com/ Workaround: To mitigate this issue, review Apache Tomcat's rewrite valve configurations. If the rewrite valve is not essential for your application, consider disabling it. If it is required, ensure its configuration does not permit improper URL encoding that could lead to security constraint bypasses. A service restart may be required for changes to take effect. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, ensure that the EncryptInterceptor in Apache Tomcat is configured according to secure best practices. Review existing configurations of EncryptInterceptor to verify that all security requirements are met and that no insecure settings are in place. If the EncryptInterceptor is not actively used, no specific action is required.
🔗 References (6)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37767
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59084
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59083
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_37767.json