CVE-2008-3173

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 14, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Jul 14, 2008

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
microsoft-ie-cookie-session-hijacking(43950)vdb-entry
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html

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