CVE-2008-3173

Published Jul 14, 2008

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer allows web sites to set cookies for domains that have a public suffix with more than one dot character, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking." NOTE: this issue may exist because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2004-0866.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.8
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "8682FAF3-98E3-485C-89CB-C0358C4E2AB0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References