CVE-2008-7294
Status: ModifiedMedium (5.8)—
Severity5.8Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.01 %higher than 63% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
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.
CVSS
- Base score
- 5.8
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 1.01 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 63
- Score date
- 10/22/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-264
References
Show 12 references
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
Raw JSON (NVD)
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