CVE-2023-28708

Apache Tomcat: JSESSIONID Cookie missing secure attribute in some configurations

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Mar 22, 2023
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Mar 21, 2023

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.

Older, EOL versions may also be affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-523 Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache TomcatApache Software Foundation	11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M2Affected 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.5Affected 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.71Affected 8.5.0 through 8.5.85Affected 3 to before 8.5.0Unknown 10.0.0-M1 through 10.0.27Unknown

References

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