Investigate in your agent.

Turn this advisory into a focused investigation. Ask your agent to check your project’s versions, explain the evidence, and suggest a compatible fix.

Your agent needs remote MCP support and access to https://cve.new/mcp.

Read the setup guide

Skip to content
cve.new Create a CVE report
Check your stack
CVE-2026-74048medium6.5

Apache Tomcat: OpenSSL-FFM FIPS failure does not prevent start-up

Impact

Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. If the OpenSSLLifecycleListener is configured to use FIPS mode but FIPS activation fails, Tomcat logs and error but continues to use JSSE in non-FIPS mode with the provided configuration.

Source excerpt · apache

Affected packages

This source has no supported package-version data for matching. You can read the advisory here, but this record alone cannot power a dependency check.

Affected products

Vendor version evidence. Product records are separate from automatic dependency matching.

Apache Software Foundation · apache

Apache Tomcat

3 ranges
apache version evidence

Compare with this publisher’s ranges. This does not inspect your installation.

affected

11.0.0-M14 → through 11.0.26

semver versions

10.1.22 → through 10.1.60

semver versions

9.0.92 → through 9.0.122

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. If the OpenSSLLifecycleListener is configured to use FIPS mode but FIPS activation fails, Tomcat logs and error but continues to use JSSE in non-FIPS mode with the provided configuration.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M14 through 11.0.26, from 10.1.22 through 10.1.60, from 9.0.92 through 9.0.122.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.27, 10.1.61 or 9.0.123, which fix the issue.

Inside the record

Evidence available

Package identity · not supplied
Version evidence
Remediation guidance · not supplied
Weakness classification
Additional publishers

Describes the evidence in this view, not whether the product is safe.

Original records

CVE-2026-74048

View the latest unmodified CVE JSON from the official source. It may be newer than this imported page.

cve.new JSON →

Underlying weaknesses

The source’s classification of what caused the vulnerability.

CWE-636 ↗

CWE-636 Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')

apache

Related →
Contributing organizations · 3
apache

Assigning organization

2026-10-20
CVE

Additional data publisher

2026-10-20
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-29

What changed

Follow changes
No substantive changes have been recorded here yet. History starts when cve.new observes a change after tracking is enabled; earlier edits are not reconstructed.

Large field values are marked as truncated previews. Original source snapshots remain retained.

References

2 sources
lists.apache.org/thread.html/v5ry0sx1c7x1wr5mx4cddj3p3mv1ho6m
vendor-advisoryapache
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/20/21
Security advisoryCVE