5.8med
CVE-2008-7293
Mozilla Firefox before 4 cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle at…
Published 15 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
5.8
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.7%
percentile 78%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.74% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
References
- hacks.mozilla.org /2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
- michael-coates.blogspot.com /2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- code.google.com /p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com /2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=660053 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com /2008/11/cookie-forcing.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2008-7293
- NVD: CVE-2008-7293
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