Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3172

Title: Opera

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-3172.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jul 14, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3172: 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."

Impacted Vendors

opera_software 1

opera 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3172 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 14, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.