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Apache Tomcat vulnerable to Unprotected Transport of Credentials

GHSA-2c9m-w27f-53rm · BIT-tomcat-2023-28708 · CVE-2023-28708

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Description

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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