PT-2004-1914 · Mozilla · Firefox

Paul Johnston + 1 · Published 2004-09-24 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2004-0867

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions 0.9.2 through 2.x

Description: The issue allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, which could enable remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions 0.9.2 through 2.x, consider restricting the setting of cookies for country-specific top-level domains to minimize the risk of session fixation attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0867

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 8

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/11186 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0867 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17415 · Note
• http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1011331 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109536612321898&w=2 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12580 · Note