CVE-2008-3172

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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."

Affected products

Opera Software AS Opera for Android: all versions

References

http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951

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