CVE-2008-3172
N/A
Published: July 14, 2008 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpera
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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."
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (5)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.htmlx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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