Apple Safari country-specific top-level domains session hijacking
| safari-domains-session-hijacking (43839) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Apple Safari could allow a remote attacker to hijack a valid user's session. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted document, a remote attacker could set the cookie for country-specific top-level domains and hijack any known user's Web session and possibly launch further attacks on the vulnerable system.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
| Temporal Score: | 3.2 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
For Apple Mac OS X:
Apply Security Update 2008-008 or upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X (10.5.6 or later), available from the Apple Web site. See References.
References:
- Apple Safari Web site: Safari.
- Web Security Research» Alex's Corner, Saturday, July 12, 2008: Some Random Safari Notes.
- BID-30192: Apple Safari Domain Extensions Insecure Cookie Access Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-3170: Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as co.uk and com.au, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka Cross-Site Cooking
- SA31128: Apple Safari Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability
- SECTRACK ID: 1020539: Safari Bug in Setting Cookies in Certain Domains May Let Remote Users Conduct Session Fixation Attacks
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-3444: Apple Mac OS X Code Execution and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.5
- Apple Safari 3.1.2
Reported:
Jul 12, 2008
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