Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-7293
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/
- michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
- code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html