Information Exposure Affecting tomcat9-admin-webapps package, versions <1:9.0.71-1.amzn2023.0.2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-TOMCAT9ADMINWEBAPPS-5496329
  • published4 May 2023
  • disclosed22 Mar 2023

Introduced: 22 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 tomcat9-admin-webapps to version 1:9.0.71-1.amzn2023.0.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2023-176.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9-admin-webapps package and not the tomcat9-admin-webapps package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1