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CVE-2008-7294

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7294 describes a "cookie forcing" vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 4.0.211.0. This flaw allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete cookies established in HTTPS sessions by injecting a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, due to the browser's inability to properly restrict cookie modifications and the lack of HSTS includeSubDomains support. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and potential for partial integrity and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0.195.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.38.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.38.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.38.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.40.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.40.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0101 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

code.google.com / p/browsersec/wiki/Part2
lists.w3.org / Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1148.html
michael-coates.blogspot.com / 2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com / 2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com / 2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html