CVE-2004-0867

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as .ltd.uk, .plc.uk, and .sch.uk, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session. NOTE: it was later reported that 2.x is also affected.

Affected products

KDE Konqueror: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3.0, 3.0.1 (+12)
Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1, 6.0-sp2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0
Mozilla Firefox: 0.9.2
Suse Linux: 1.0, 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0

References

http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109536612321898&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12580/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011331
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11186
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17415
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109536612321898&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12580/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011331
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11186

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