National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3173

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows web sites to set cookies for domains that have a public suffix with more than one dot character, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking." NOTE: this issue may exist because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2004-0866.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: microsoft-ie-cookie-session-hijacking(43950)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43950

External Source: MISC

Name: http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html

Hyperlink:http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html

Hyperlink:http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html