CVE-2008-6059: Webkit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xml/XMLHttpRequest.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r38566 does not properly restrict access from web pages to the (1) Set-Cookie and (2) Set-Cookie2 HTTP response headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls, related to the HTTPOnly protection mechanism.

Affected products

• Webkit Webkit: any version

Published 2009-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.