CVE-2014-8639

Summary

CVECVE-2014-8639
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-14 11:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-08 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox before 35.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.4, Thunderbird before 31.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly interpret Set-Cookie headers within responses that have a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) status code, which allows remote HTTP proxy servers to conduct session fixation attacks by providing a cookie name that corresponds to the session cookie of the origin server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.3.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 31.3.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA62657 - SUSE update for MozillaThunderbird - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Advisory SA62250 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:0192-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks, and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Security Advisory SA62237 - Debian update for iceweasel - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0171-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-2460-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Cookie injection through Proxy Authenticate responses — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA62315 - Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0173-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Security Advisory SA62274 - Red Hat update for thunderbird - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Advisory SA62242 - Ubuntu update for ubufox - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1266-1: important: Mozilla (Firefox SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3132-1 icedove DEBIAN www.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3127-1 iceweasel DEBIAN www.debian.org
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linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2015-0046 CONFIRM linux.oracle.com
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Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks, and Conduct Session Fixation Attacks - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
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Security Advisory SA62304 - Oracle Linux update for thunderbird - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
1095859 – (CVE-2014-8639) Cookie injection by Proxy with 407 response CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0180-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - April 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
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