CVE-2008-3172

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 a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking."

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References

• http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
• http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
• http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951
• http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html