CVE-2011-5064: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DigestAuthenticator.java in the HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.34, 6.x before 6.0.33, and 7.x before 7.0.12 uses Catalina as the hard-coded server secret (aka private key), which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of this string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1184.

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 2012-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.