CIB seven 2.1.6 CE+ - Release Notes
Release Notes
Release Date: April 30, 2026
Highlights
- JWT Secret can now be configured via system property in the REST engine
- Incidents display fixes for BPMN diagram badges and stack traces with non-full history level configuration
- Security Multiple CVEs resolved in
openssl,log4j-core, Apache Tomcat, andmusl
New Features
REST Engine
- Added support for setting
jwtSecretvia system property
User Experience Improvements in Web Client
Incidents
- Show incidents from history and runtime tables based on the configured history level
- Added incidents icon retrieval in runtime process instance search
- Improved stack trace visibility for incidents originating from the selected process and its subprocesses
- Fixed an issue where incident badges were not shown on the BPMN diagram in the process definition view and process instance view
- Fixed an issue where subprocess incident badges were not displayed in the main process instance view
- Fixed an issue where incident badges were not shown on Call Activity elements in the instance view with AUDIT history level
Variables
- Fixed fetching of variables for ‘audit’ history level in process instance view
Process View
- Fixed reset of activity instance and history state when navigating from main process to subprocess using the BPMN diagram
Technical Updates
Dependency Updates
- Update
log4jfrom2.25.3to2.25.4 - Update
spring-bootfrom3.5.12to3.5.14 - Update
spring-boot-4from4.0.4to4.0.5 - Update
jacksonmodules from2.21.1to2.21.2 - Update
tomcatfrom3.5.12to3.5.14 - Update
tomcat9from9.0.110to9.0.117
Resolved CVE Vulnerabilities
Critical Severity
- CVE-2026-31789 - Heap buffer overflow when converting an excessively large OCTET STRING value to a hexadecimal string on 32-bit platforms in
openssl, which may lead to a crash or attacker-controlled code execution. - CVE-2026-29145 -
CLIENT_CERTauthentication does not fail as expected when soft fail is disabled in Apache Tomcat and Apache Tomcat Native, allowing authentication bypass.
High Severity
- CVE-2026-28387 - Use-after-free and/or double-free in
opensslduring DANE TLSA-based server authentication, which may result in data corruption, crash, or arbitrary code execution. - CVE-2026-28388 - NULL pointer dereference in
opensslduring delta CRL processing when the required CRL Number extension is missing, leading to Denial of Service. - CVE-2026-28389 - NULL pointer dereference in
opensslwhen processing a crafted CMSEnvelopedDatamessage withKeyAgreeRecipientInfo, leading to Denial of Service. - CVE-2026-28390 - NULL pointer dereference in
opensslwhen processing a crafted CMSEnvelopedDatamessage withKeyTransportRecipientInfo, leading to Denial of Service. - CVE-2026-29129 - Configured cipher preference order not preserved in Apache Tomcat.
- CVE-2026-34483 - Improper encoding or escaping of output in the
JsonAccessLogValvecomponent of Apache Tomcat. - CVE-2026-34487 - Kubernetes bearer token exposed in log files via the cloud membership clustering component of Apache Tomcat.
- CVE-2026-40200 - Stack-based memory corruption in
musllibc duringqsortof very large arrays due to incorrectly implemented double-word primitives.
Medium Severity
- CVE-2026-31790 - Uninitialized memory buffer may be disclosed to a malicious peer when using RSASVE key encapsulation in
openssl. - CVE-2026-34480 -
XmlLayoutinlog4j-corefails to sanitize characters forbidden by the XML 1.0 specification, producing invalid XML output. - CVE-2026-25854 - Open Redirect vulnerability in Apache Tomcat via the
LoadBalancerDrainingValve. - CVE-2026-32990 - Improper Input Validation in Apache Tomcat due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-66614.
- CVE-2026-34500 -
CLIENT_CERTauthentication does not fail as expected when soft fail is disabled and FFM is used in Apache Tomcat.
Low Severity
- CVE-2026-2673 - OpenSSL TLS 1.3 server may fail to negotiate the expected preferred key exchange group when the server configuration uses the
DEFAULTkeyword.