CVE-2008-3173

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.3% 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

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 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
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950

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