PT-2011-1286 · Google · Google Chrome

Published 2011-08-09 · Updated 2012-08-02 · CVE-2008-7294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 4.0.211.0

Description The issue is related to the lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response. This is a "cookie forcing" issue that affects HTTPS sessions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.211.0, update to version 4.0.211.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7294

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7294 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053 · Patch
• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html · Note
• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html · Note
• http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html · Note
• http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies · Note