Unprotected Transport of Credentials Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.43-2~deb11u6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-TOMCAT9-3372250
  • published25 Mar 2023
  • disclosed22 Mar 2023

Introduced: 22 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-523  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 tomcat9 to version 9.0.43-2~deb11u6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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.

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