CVE - CVE-2008-7294

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-7294	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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MISC:http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies MISC:http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html MISC:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html MISC:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html MISC:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 MLIST:[public-webapps] 20090918 fyi: Strict Transport Security specification URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20110809	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20110809)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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