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Medium· 5.3GHSA-g7cf-wg27-qw87 CVE-2014-9634Published May 17, 2022

Jenkins secure flag not set on session cookies

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Affected versions

0 → fixed in 1.586

Details

Jenkins before 1.586 does not set the secure flag on session cookies when run on Tomcat 7.0.41 or later, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture cookies by intercepting their transmission within an HTTP session.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

References