CVE-2008-7295
Microsoft Internet Explorer cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 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.
Timeline
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By mitre
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-7248 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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