CVE-2008-7298

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

The Android browser in Android 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.

The Android browser in Android 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

First reported 13 years ago

2011-08-09 19:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-02 04:00:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System

References

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies

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

Patch

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