High (7.0). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 10.0.16, 8.5.75, 9.0.58.
The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)