CVE-2008-3661 (GCVE-0-2008-3661)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-23 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:45
VLAI
Summary
Drupal, probably 5.10 and 6.4, does not set the secure flag for the session cookie in an https session, which can cause the cookie to be sent in http requests and make it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-09-20 00:00
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