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GSD-2023-28708

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

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When using the RemoteIpFilter with requests received from a reverse proxy via HTTP that include the X-Forwarded-Proto header set to https, session cookies created by Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.0.-M2, 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.5, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.71 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.85 did not include the secure attribute. This could result in the user agent transmitting the session cookie over an insecure channel.

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CVE-2023-28708 (GCVE-0-2023-28708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-22 10:10 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:15

Title

Apache Tomcat: JSESSIONID Cookie missing secure attribute in some configurations

Summary

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-13 14:33 UTC

CWE

CWE-523 - Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023033…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tomcat	Affected: 11.0.0-M1 , ≤ 11.0.0-M2 (semver) Affected: 10.1.0-M1 , ≤ 10.1.5 (semver) Affected: 9.0.0-M1 , ≤ 9.0.71 (semver) Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.85 (semver) Unknown: 3 , < 8.5.0 (semver) Unknown: 10.0.0-M1 , ≤ 10.0.27 (semver)

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