CVE-2008-7295

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
17.8%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 9, 2011 (5392 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 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.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 code.google.com 🔗 michael-coates.blogspot.com 🔗 scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com 🔗 scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com 🔗 bugzilla.mozilla.org