PT-2008-4590 · Opera · Opera

Paul Johnston + 1 · Published 2008-07-14 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3172

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Opera (affected versions not specified)

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

Recommendations: 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-2008-3172

Affected Products

Opera

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3172 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342 · Note
• http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html · Note
• http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html · Note
• http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951 · Note