Re: Referers Are Evil

[Nicolas Rachinsky <fd-0 () ml turing-complete org>]

* Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists () vanscherpenseel nl> [2005-08-07 22:41 +0200]:
> On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:27, Bipin Gautam wrote:
>
> > BUT, i remember testing it on PHPBB back then, i don't think you can
> > take over the session on that! (i may be wrong). YAP, but there are
> > LOTS of sites & applications out there from which you can easily steal
> > away sessions.
>
> Well, if the client's IP address used for a given session is stored in a 
> session variable  it's not possible to steal an active session from another 
> IP address. That's probably their way of working around this problem.

What if the attacker is behind the same proxy?

Nicolas

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