Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2008-3663 json

Squirrelmail 1.4.15 does not set the secure flag for the session cookie in an https session, which can cause the cookie to be sent in http…

published 2008-09-24 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3649

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Squirrelmail 1.4.15 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.

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.8-8.el3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 4 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2
  • squirrelmail RHEL 5 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0010

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-3663 updated

squirrelmail: session hijacking - secure flag not set for HTTPS-only cookies

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0010

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.