VDB
CVE-2008-7298
CVE-2008-7298
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.800000190734863 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 0.99% · 61.0th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
5.800000190734863
EPSS Score
0.99%
61.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| android | android_browser | |
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
| android |
Timeline
- Aug 9, 2011 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 12, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 6, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 29, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 21, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html url
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies url
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html url
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 url
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7298 advisory