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CVE-2008-7295

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7295 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer where it fails to properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies using a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, a "cookie forcing" issue related to the absence of HSTS includeSubDomains. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8, indicating a medium severity with network access and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0510 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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
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