Bug 484197 (CVE-2008-6059)

Summary:	CVE-2008-6059 WebKit: Sensitive information disclosure from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	martin.sourada, mtasaka, peter
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/38566/trunk/WebCore/xml/XMLHttpRequest.cpp
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-05 11:18:57 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-6059 to
the following vulnerability:

xml/XMLHttpRequest.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r38566 does not
properly restrict access from web pages to the (1) Set-Cookie and (2)
Set-Cookie2 HTTP response headers, which allows remote attackers to
obtain sensitive information from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls,
related to the HTTPOnly protection mechanism.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6059
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/38566/trunk/WebCore/xml/XMLHttpRequest.cpp
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10957

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-05 11:20:30 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the WebKit package, as shipped
with Fedora releases of 9 and 10.

Please fix.

This issue does NOT affect the version of the WebKit package, as shipped
with Fedora release of devel.

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 22:56:51 UTC

This is fixed in the latest webkit packages we provide in Fedora and RHEL6.