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Re: Re: Question regarding CVE applicability of missing HttpOnly flag


From: Vladimir '3APA3A' Dubrovin <vlad () securityvulns ru>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:53:01 +0400



At least sharing session with Flash application may require Javascript access to session cookies. It can be worked out in most cases, but it's not so simple as
"just make all session cookies HTTPOnly".

Kurt Seifried пишет:
So with widespread XSS in mind, I think it's safe to say that
virtually every web site (even sites that care deeply and spend
time/money and have bug bounties) have lurking XSS flaws, which if
HTTPOnly is not used can result in cookie theft. So in my mind
HTTPOnly isn't an option any more, but a requirement, ergo in most
situations no HTTPOnly = win a CVE.




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