CVE-2008-7297
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
53.8%
Opera 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.
Affected configurations
References
code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
Related
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
53.8%