CVE-2010-1157: Apache Tomcat

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 52.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.29 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.26 might allow remote attackers to discover the server's hostname or IP address by sending a request for a resource that requires (1) BASIC or (2) DIGEST authentication, and then reading the realm field in the WWW-Authenticate header in the reply.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.5.4 only; version 5.5.5 only; …

Published 2010-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.