CVE-2008-7293
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 9, 2011
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 9, 2011
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/
- 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
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
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