CVE-2008-3173

CVE-2008-3173 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows web sites to set cookies for domains that have a public suffix with more than one dot character, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking." NOTE: this issue may exist because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2004-0866.

Learn more about our Web App Pen Testing.