CVE-2008-7294: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome before 4.0.211.0 cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a "cookie forcing" issue.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 3.0.195.38; version 0.1.38.1 only; version 0.1.38.2 only; version 0.1.38.4 only; version 0.1.40.1 only; version 0.1.42.2 only; …

Published 2011-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.