Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookie names — Mozilla

2016-01-2600:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

5.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.5%

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Security researcher musicDespiteEverything previously reported an issue where illegal control characters were stored in as cookie values in violation of RFC6265. While fixing this issue, Mozilla developer Nicholas Hurley realized that the same issue applied to the names of cookies. These characters have now been disallowed in cookie names. This issue could result in incorrect cookie handling by web servers.