CVE-2008-7293
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endIncluding":"4.0"} | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.11 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.0.12 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.5.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.11 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.12 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.13 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.14 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.15 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.16 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.17 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.18 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.19 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 2.0.0.20 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.11 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.12 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.13 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.14 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.15 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.16 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.0.17 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.11 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.12 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.13 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.14 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.15 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.16 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.17 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.18 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.5.19 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.4 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.6 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.7 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.11 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.12 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.13 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.14 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.15 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.16 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 3.6.17 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 4.0 | |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
- 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://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
- 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://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
CWEs
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