GHSA-2c9m-w27f-53rmMediumCVSS 4.3

Apache Tomcat vulnerable to Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Published
March 22, 2023
Last Modified
November 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.0-M3
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.6
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 9.0.0-M1, < 9.0.72
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.86

🔗 References (13)