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Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth)
From: "Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity () hotpop com>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 21:23:45 +0200
On 3 May 2006 at 12:47, Amit Klein (AKsecurity) wrote:
Bottom line: there are many known attacks against HttpOnly (and against Basic auth), that is, many known ways to elevate "standard" XSS condition to be able to grab session info/credentials stored in HttpOnly cookies/HTTP Basic auth.
BTW, while we're at it, HTTP *digest* authentication is *much* less vulnerable to exposure via HTTP headers, due to its dynamic nature. -Amit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Watchfire The Twelve Most Common Application-level Hack Attacks Hackers continue to add billions to the cost of doing business online despite security executives' efforts to prevent malicious attacks. This whitepaper identifies the most common methods of attacks that we have seen, and outlines a guideline for developing secure web applications. Download this whitepaper today! https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/whitepapers.aspx?id=701300000007t9r --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Brian Eaton (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Brian Eaton (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Pilon Mntry (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Achim Hoffmann (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Peter Watkins (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (May 03)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (May 04)
- Re: Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (May 05)
- Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth) Brian Eaton (May 03)