CVE-2008-7295: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 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

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: any version

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