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Apache Tomcat vulnerable to Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 22, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 27, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.0-M3
>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.6
>= 9.0.0-M1, < 9.0.72
>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.86

Patched versions

11.0.0-M3
10.1.6
9.0.72
8.5.86

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 22, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 22, 2023
Reviewed Mar 22, 2023
Last updated Mar 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.133%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-28708

GHSA ID

GHSA-2c9m-w27f-53rm

Source code

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