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CVE-2008-3170

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as co.uk and com.au, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking," a related issue to CVE-2004-0746, CVE-2004-0866, and CVE-2004-0867.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Apple — Safari

CWEs

References

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