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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…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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."
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)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (3 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 (5)
- http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- opera-cookie-session-hijacking(43951) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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