National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-7294

Overview

Google Chrome before 4.0.211.0 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053

External Source: MISC

Name: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html

Hyperlink:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html

Hyperlink:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html

Hyperlink:http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [public-webapps] 20090918 fyi: Strict Transport Security specification

Hyperlink:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies