Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.5.93

Moderate: Open redirect CVE-2023-41080

If the ROOT (default) web application is configured to use FORM authentication then it is possible that a specially crafted URL could be used to trigger a redirect to an URL of the attackers choice.

This was fixed with commit 4998ad74.

This issue was reported to the Tomcat Security Team on 17 August 2023. The issue was made public on 22 August 2023.

Affects: 8.5.0 to 8.5.92