CVE-2014-8639

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-01-13
CWE:
CWE-88
Bugzilla:
1180967: CVE-2014-8639 Mozilla: Cookie injection through Proxy Authenticate responses (MFSA 2015-04)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 35.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.4, Thunderbird before 31.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly interpret Set-Cookie headers within responses that have a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) status code, which allows remote HTTP proxy servers to conduct session fixation attacks by providing a cookie name that corresponds to the session cookie of the origin server.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8639 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0047 2015-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0046 2015-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0047 2015-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0047 2015-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0046 2015-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0046 2015-01-13

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Xiaofeng Zheng as the original reporter.

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