Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <4.0.211.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-CHROMIUMBROWSER-415176
  • published9 Aug 2011
  • disclosed9 Aug 2011

Introduced: 9 Aug 2011

CVE-2008-7294  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 chromium-browser to version 4.0.211.0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Google Chrome before 4.0.211.0 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.

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