CVE-2012-4529

medium

Published 2013-10-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.encodeURL method in Red Hat JBoss Web 7.1.x and earlier, when the tracking mode is set to COOKIE, sends the jsessionid in the URL of the first response of a session, which allows remote attackers to obtain the session id (1) via a man-in-the-middle attack or (2) by reading a log.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`{"endIncluding":"7.1.1"}`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`5.0.0`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`5.0.1`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`5.1.0`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`6.0.0`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`6.1.0`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`7.0.0`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`7.0.1`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`7.0.2`
redhat	jboss_community_application_server	`7.1.0`
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	`6.0.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.