CVE-2008-3172 | BDVDB-2026-31533 Detail

Description#

Opera 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."

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-07-14Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.