CVE-2008-3662

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Gallery before 1.5.9, and 2.x before 2.2.6, does not set the secure flag for the session cookie in an https session, which can cause the cookie to be sent in http requests and make it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie.

Affected products

Gallery: through 2.2.5; through 1.5.8; 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4

References

http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_1.5.9_released
http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_2.2.6_released
http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-3662-gallery.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0379.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32662
http://secunia.com/advisories/33144
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496509/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31231
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00794.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00832.html
http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_1.5.9_released

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