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CVE-2010-4312

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4312 describes a misconfiguration vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 6.x where the default settings omit the HTTPOnly flag in Set-Cookie headers. This oversight allows remote attackers to more easily hijack user sessions through script access to cookies. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity to achieve partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcatFixed in: 6.0.35
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: tomcat6

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-pvjh-7h8q-q56rmedium

Apache Tomcat has cookies without HTTPOnly flag in Set-Cookie header

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2010-4312Moderate

tomcat6: does not use HTTPOnly for session cookies by default

Nov 22, 2010

References

securityfocus.com / archive/1/514866/100/0/threaded