CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7297
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
Opera 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
• opera opera browser
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies code.google.com
- 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://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