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Unprotected Transport of Credentials

CVE-2023-28708

Medium
4.3/10

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 versions 8.5.0 through 8.5.85, 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.71, 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.5 and 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M2 did not include the secure attribute. This could result in the user agent transmitting the session cookie over an insecure channel.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-523 - Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Login pages do not use adequate measures to protect the user name and password while they are in transit from the client to the server.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published