Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2008-3172 (CCN-43951)

Assigned:2008-02-22
Published:2008-02-22
Updated:2017-08-08
Summary: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 a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking."
CVSS v3 Severity:5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availibility (A): None
CVSS v2 Severity:6.8 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
5.5 Medium (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): Partial
4.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
3.5 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): None
Vulnerability Type:CWE-264
Vulnerability Consequences:Gain Access
References:Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2008-3172

Source: CCN
Type: Web Security Research - Alex's Corner Web site
Understanding Cookie Security

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55

Source: CCN
Type: Opera Web site
Opera browser: Home page

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 48817
Opera Top Level Domain Cross-Domain Cookie Fixation

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
opera-cookie-session-hijacking(43951)

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
opera-cookie-session-hijacking(43951)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:opera:opera:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    opera opera *
    opera opera browser *