CVE-2026-111248 Apache TomEE: Authentication with the stored password digest in Tomcat user identity store

The Jakarta Security identity store backed by the Tomcat user database compares the supplied password with the stored value as plain text and ignores the configured credential handler. When digested passwords are stored, an attacker who obtained a stored digest, for example from a leaked users fi...

CVE-2026-111248

The Jakarta Security identity store in Apache TomEE , when backed by the Tomcat user database, is vulnerable to a flaw where it compares supplied passwords against stored values as plain text while ignoring the configured credential handler. This allows an attacker who has obtained a stored passw...

CVE-2026-111248: Apache Software Foundation Apache TomEE: The Jakarta Security identity store backed by the Tomcat user database compares the supplied password with the stored…

The Jakarta Security identity store backed by the Tomcat user database compares the supplied password with the stored value as plain text and ignores the configured credential handler. When digested passwords are stored, an attacker who obtained a stored digest, for example from a leaked users fi...