Summary
CVE-2026-61899 is an information disclosure vulnerability in the tapestry-core component of Apache Tapestry. Insufficient validation in the framework’s classpath asset handling allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to download restricted classpath files via specially crafted URLs. It affects Apache Tapestry 5.5.0 through 5.9.0 and is rated HIGH (CVSS 7.5).
Technical details
- Root cause: Insufficient validation of URL parameters in the classpath asset handling of
tapestry-core, allowing file paths to be manipulated to reach classpath resources not intended for public retrieval (CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor). - Trigger conditions: An attacker sends a specially crafted URL to a Tapestry application; no authentication or user interaction is required.
- Attack vector: Network — exploitable remotely over HTTP against an internet-facing Tapestry application.
- Impact: Unauthorized disclosure of sensitive classpath files (high confidentiality impact; no integrity or availability impact).
Affected software
- Apache Tapestry (
org.apache.tapestry:tapestry-core) 5.5.0 through 5.9.0 (versions prior to 5.9.1).
Severity
- CVSS v3.1 base score: 7.5 (HIGH)
- Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Mitigation and recommended actions
- Immediate: Upgrade to Apache Tapestry 5.9.1, which fixes this issue.
- If no patch: Restrict network access to Tapestry applications and filter or block crafted requests to classpath asset URLs at a reverse proxy or WAF until the upgrade can be applied.
How IONIX identifies potentially affected assets
IONIX matches the following signals against data already collected when it crawled the asset; identifying the technology sends no request beyond that crawl.
- Raw response body:
name="t:formdata",Powered by Apache Tapestry Framework - A named meta tag’s content:
Tapestryin thegeneratormeta tag; any value in thetapestry-page-namemeta tag - A JavaScript object present once the page runs:
t5/core/dom

