CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3173
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-07-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html crisp.tweakblogs.net
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html kuza55.blogspot.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html crisp.tweakblogs.net
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html kuza55.blogspot.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com