CVE-2008-3172

Published: Jul 14, 2008Modified: Apr 23, 2026

6.8

Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 6.4

Source: NVD

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."

Affected (1)

Products: Opera: Opera

Opera

1 product

Opera

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Opera Opera	All versions

Related CWEs

CWE-264

References (10)

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951

Source: cve@mitre.org

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