Vulnerability CVE-2008-7298
Published: 2011-08-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The Android browser in Android 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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Google -> Android 
Android -> Android browser 

 References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660053
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-less-obvious-benefits-of-hsts.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/cookie-forcing.html
http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-forcing-trust-your-cookies-no.html
http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies
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