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 Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a "cookie forcing" issue.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
Scores
EPSS
0.0168
EPSS Percentile
74.3%
Details
CWE
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (47)
mozilla/firefox
1.0 (2 CPE variants)
mozilla/firefox
1.0.1
mozilla/firefox
1.0.2
mozilla/firefox
1.0.3
mozilla/firefox
1.0.4
mozilla/firefox
1.0.5
mozilla/firefox
1.0.6
mozilla/firefox
1.0.7
mozilla/firefox
1.0.8
mozilla/firefox
1.5 (3 CPE variants)
... and 37 more
Published
Aug 09, 2011
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026