Unprotected Transport of Credentials Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [8.5.0,8.5.86) [9.0.0-M1,9.0.72) [10.1.0-M1,10.1.6) [11.0.0-M1,11.0.0-M3)


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-3369685
  • published 23 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 22 Mar 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 8.5.86, 9.0.72, 10.1.6, 11.0.0-M3 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina is a Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unprotected Transport of Credentials when using the RemoteIpFilter with requests received from a reverse proxy via HTTP, in which the X-Forwarded-Proto header is set to https. Session cookies do not include the secure attribute, so the user agent may transmit the session cookie over an insecure channel.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

4.3 medium
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

4.3 medium