CVE-2008-7297

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

1.00%

Published

Aug 9, 2011

Modified

Apr 28, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Opera 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Products (1)

opera · opera_browservulnerable

References (10)

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies

http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053

Patch

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies