National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0462
Original release date:12/31/2004
Last revised:10/20/2005
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The built-in web servers for multiple networking devices do not set the Secure attribute for sensitive cookies in HTTPS sessions, which could cause the user agent to send those cookies in plaintext over an HTTP session with the same server.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#546483
Name: VU#546483
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: network-device-secure-plaintext(17702)
Vulnerable software and versions
