CVE-2008-3173
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…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 11.31% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950
- http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.