CVE-2008-3172

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-3172
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-14 23:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionOpera allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains that have DNS A records, such as co.tv, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opera Opera All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IE and 2-letter domain-names - Crisp's blog - Tweakblogs - Tweakers af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 crisp.tweakblogs.net
Web Security Research» Alex's Corner: Understanding Cookie Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 kuza55.blogspot.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
o.bulport.com/index.php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 o.bulport.com
252342 – fix cookie domain checks to not allow .co.uk af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
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