01 Record
CVE-2008-7293
Mozilla Firefox before 4 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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox before 4 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
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
- 1.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.5% 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
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2011-08-09 19:00Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 20:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-08-09
- 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
- 94c5b7732e6ad0401a484160cccc0eee7f32a9425bc00c0d50aa8b0ce2849203
05 Affected products
06 References
- hacks.mozilla.orghttp://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/
- michael-coates.blogspot.comhttp://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
- code.google.comhttp://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.comhttp://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.comhttp://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html