Apache Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-28708) and Workload Automation AE

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Apache Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-28708) and Workload Automation AE was reported against the Tomcat releases distributed with AutoSys Servers.

 

CVE 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.

Environment

Release : 12.0/12.1

Resolution

To address this vulnerability, update the bundled Tomcat to Tomcat 9.0.72 or higher using the steps provided here.

Tomcat 9 downloads are available here.