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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-22 10:10 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:15
VLAI
Title
Apache Tomcat: JSESSIONID Cookie missing secure attribute in some configurations
Summary
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. Older, EOL versions may also be affected.
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
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
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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