# CVE-2008-3172: Auth bypass in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack user sessions via cookie manipulation on specific top-level domains, requiring user interaction to visit a malicious site.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Jul 2008
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qq2x-j84f-pf8v

## What is CVE-2008-3172?

CVE-2008-3172 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Opera allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains that have DNS A records, such as co.tv, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user's HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking."

Weakness: CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3172?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Opera Opera.

## How do I fix CVE-2008-3172?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-3172 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2008-3172 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2008-4293](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4293/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-3079](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3079/): Code injection in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-5679](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5679/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2008-5178](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5178/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2008-4794](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4794/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-3172 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2008-3172 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3172/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3172/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3172
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3172
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3172

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3172/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.