Detections
Analytics
CVE-2008-3173
high
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43950
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html
http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html