Information Exposure Affecting tomcat-jsp-2.3-api package, versions <1:9.0.62-37.el9_3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TOMCATJSP23API-9689851
  • published13 Apr 2025
  • 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 RHEL:9 tomcat-jsp-2.3-api to version 1:9.0.62-37.el9_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:6570.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-jsp-2.3-api package and not the tomcat-jsp-2.3-api package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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