Findings

CVE-2026-107280

AsyncHttpClient: Cookie Domain attribute is not checked against the public suffix list, so a cookie can be set for co.uk

Published Oct 8, 2026 · updated Oct 8, 2026

### Impact The cookie store decides whether a attribute may be accepted using only the domain-matching rule of RFC 6265 Section 5.1.3, which asks whether the request host is the domain or ends with a dot followed by it. Section 5.3 step 5, which additionally requires rejecting a that is a public suffix, is not implemented anywhere in the client. So a host under a multi-label public suffix can set a cookie for the suffix itself, and the store then hands it to every other host under that suffix: works the same way. The attacker needs only a site under the same suffix as the victim, which for suffixes such as , , or is trivially obtainable. Depending on what the application does with the cookie, this is session fixation, or it overwrites a session the victim site set, or it lets the attacker plant a value the victim site trusts. ### Affected versions * 3.x: up to and including 3.0.12 * 2.x: up to and including 2.16.0 ### Relationship to CVE-2026-55688 CVE-2026-55688 (GHSA-m452-q8c9-rg2f) covered the direct form of this, where a host sets a naming an unrelated host, and that form is genuinely fixed: can no longer set , and this was verified as a control. What that fix did not add is the public suffix test, so setting still reaches . This advisory covers only the residual. ### Patches Fixed in 3.0.13 on the 3.x line. The ICANN section of the Mozilla public suffix list is bundled with the client and a matching it is rejected, honouring the list's wildcard and exception rules. The list is data and goes stale, so a suffix added upstream after a release is not recognised until the bundled copy is refreshed. The 2.x line is not yet fixed. ### Workarounds Do not share one across origins that are not mutually trusted. Supplying a implementation that rejects values which are public suffixes also avoids it. ### Details is . It is used both to accept a on storage and to select cookies for a request, and neither call site consults a public suffix list. A search of the client for an