CVE-2014-8639

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-01-13
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2014-8639 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2015-0047	2015-01-13
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2015-0047	2015-01-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 7 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14