CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7294
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Google Chrome before 4.0.211.0 cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a "cookie forcing" issue.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (<= 3.0.195.38)
• google chrome 0.1.38.1
• google chrome 0.1.38.2
• google chrome 0.1.38.4
• google chrome 0.1.40.1
• google chrome 0.1.42.2
• google chrome 0.1.42.3
• google chrome 0.2.149.27
• google chrome 0.2.149.29
• google chrome 0.2.149.30
• google chrome 0.2.152.1
• google chrome 0.2.153.1
• google chrome 0.3.154.0
• google chrome 0.3.154.3
• google chrome 0.4.154.18
• google chrome 0.4.154.22
• google chrome 0.4.154.31
• google chrome 0.4.154.33
• google chrome 1.0.154.36
• google chrome 1.0.154.39
• google chrome 1.0.154.42
• google chrome 1.0.154.43
• google chrome 1.0.154.46
• google chrome 1.0.154.48
• google chrome 1.0.154.52
• google chrome 1.0.154.53
• google chrome 1.0.154.59
• google chrome 1.0.154.64
• google chrome 1.0.154.65
• google chrome 2.0.156.1
• google chrome 2.0.157.0
• google chrome 2.0.157.2
• google chrome 2.0.158.0
• google chrome 2.0.159.0
• google chrome 2.0.169.0
• google chrome 2.0.169.1
• google chrome 2.0.170.0
• google chrome 2.0.172
• google chrome 2.0.172.2
• google chrome 2.0.172.8
• google chrome 2.0.172.27
• google chrome 2.0.172.28
• google chrome 2.0.172.30
• google chrome 2.0.172.31
• google chrome 2.0.172.33
• google chrome 2.0.172.37
• google chrome 2.0.172.38
• google chrome 3.0.182.2
• google chrome 3.0.190.2
• google chrome 3.0.193.2
• google chrome 3.0.195.2
• google chrome 3.0.195.21
• google chrome 3.0.195.24
• google chrome 3.0.195.25
• google chrome 3.0.195.27
• google chrome 3.0.195.32
• google chrome 3.0.195.33
• google chrome 3.0.195.36
• google chrome 3.0.195.37
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies code.google.com
- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html lists.w3.org
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html michael-coates.blogspot.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 Patch
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies code.google.com
- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html lists.w3.org
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html michael-coates.blogspot.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 Patch