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CVE-2008-3172 Details

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
opera opera	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 8, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 15, 2008	Initial Analysis	[email protected]