CVE-2008-7296

Apple Safari - Cookie Manipulation via HTTP Set-Cookie Header

Title source: llm

Description

Apple Safari 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 (5)

Core 5

Core References

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/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.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 0.0100

EPSS Percentile 59.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (1)

apple/safari

Published Aug 09, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026