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CVE-2008-7293

Date: August 9, 2011

Mozilla Firefox before 4 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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7293
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7293
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-7293

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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