CVE-2012-4529: Red Hat JBoss Community Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Community Application Server: up to and including 7.1.1; version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 6.0.0 only; version 6.1.0 only; …
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 6.0.0 only

Published 2013-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.