CVE-2008-7296

Published: Aug 9, 2011Modified: Apr 29, 2026

5.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 4.9

Source: NVD

Description

Apple Safari 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.

Affected (1)

Products: Apple: Safari

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Apple Safari	All versions

Related CWEs

References (10)

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

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