CVE-2008-7293

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mozilla Firefox

First reported 13 years ago

2011-08-09 19:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-02 04:00:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release

1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7

1.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8

1.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

1.5.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

1.5.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5

1.5.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6

1.5.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8

1.5.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9

1.5.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.10

1.5.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11

1.5.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12

1.5.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.1

1.5.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.2

1.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.3

1.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.4

1.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.5

1.5.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.6

1.5.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.7

1.5.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.8

1.5.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1

2.0.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2

2.0.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3

2.0.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7

2.0.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8

2.0.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

2.0.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

2.0.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12

2.0.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13

2.0.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14

2.0.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15

2.0.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16

2.0.0.16

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17

2.0.0.17

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18

2.0.0.18

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.19

2.0.0.19

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20

2.0.0.20

Mozilla Firefox 3.0

3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1

3.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2

3.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3

3.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4

3.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5

3.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6

3.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7

3.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8

3.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9

3.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10

3.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11

3.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12

3.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13

3.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14

3.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.15

3.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.16

3.0.16

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.17

3.0.17

Mozilla Firefox 3.5

3.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1

3.5.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

3.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

3.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4

3.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5

3.5.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6

3.5.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7

3.5.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8

3.5.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9

3.5.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.10

3.5.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.11

3.5.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.12

3.5.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.13

3.5.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.14

3.5.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.15

3.5.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16

3.5.16

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.17

3.5.17

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.18

3.5.18

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19

3.5.19

Mozilla Firefox 3.6

3.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2

3.6.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3

3.6.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4

3.6.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6

3.6.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7

3.6.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8

3.6.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9

3.6.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10

3.6.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11

3.6.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12

3.6.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13

3.6.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14

3.6.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.15

3.6.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16

3.6.16

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.17

3.6.17

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta1

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta10

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta11

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta2

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta3

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta4

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta5

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta6

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta7

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta8

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta9

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

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