CVE-2008-3173

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
14.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: July 14, 2008 (6512 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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