01 Record
CVE-2008-3172
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 67.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-07-14 23:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 09:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-07-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d2ce40fda51e5f30f98b498c74d9d3c0c371e414126e35a16bea456c45d2da69
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- crisp.tweakblogs.nethttp://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
- kuza55.blogspot.comhttp://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
- o.bulport.comhttp://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comopera-cookie-session-hijacking(43951)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951