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CVE-2008-3170
Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as co.uk and com.au, which could allow remote…
Medium6.8EPSS 2.1%
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- mitre
Description
Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as co.uk and com.au, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking," a related issue to CVE-2004-0746, CVE-2004-0866, and CVE-2004-0867.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- ADV-2008-3444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA08-350A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 30192 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 31128 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- safari-domains-session-hijacking(43839) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-12-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/07/some-random-safari-notes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1020539 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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