CVE-2008-3173
Microsoft Internet Explorer - Session Fixation via Cross-Site Cooking
Title source: llmDescription
Microsoft Internet Explorer allows web sites to set cookies for domains that have a public suffix with more than one dot character, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking." NOTE: this issue may exist because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2004-0866.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
Scores
EPSS
0.1131
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Details
CWE
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (1)
microsoft/internet_explorer
Published
Jul 14, 2008
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026