Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 14, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-3172

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."

Affected products

Opera (company)/Opera
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.htmlnvd
kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.htmlnvd
o.bulport.com/index.phpnvd
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951nvd

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