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CVE-2008-7296

CVE-2008-7296

EPSS 1.0%
Apple Safari cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a "cookie forcing" issue.
Affected products
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References
http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookieshttp://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.htmlhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.htmlhttp://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html