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CVE-2023-28708

Public on 2023-03-22
Modified on 2023-03-24
Description

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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core tomcat 2023-04-27 18:36 ALAS2-2023-2020
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat8.5 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 20:58 ALAS2TOMCAT8.5-2023-013
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat9 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 20:58 ALAS2TOMCAT9-2023-008
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2023-04-13 19:01 ALAS-2023-1732
Amazon Linux 2023 tomcat9 2023-04-27 20:00 ALAS2023-2023-176

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N