Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth)

[Pilon Mntry <pilonmntry () yahoo com>]

I liked the generalization in the 3rd category because
that test script might also be a service or an action
or an event that regenerates the session id without
any extra challenge. (as i tried to express in another
thread)

-pilon

> It looks like the attacks fall into three
> categories:
>
> - attacks requiring XSS + TRACE.
> - attacks requiring XSS + request smuggling.
> - attacks requiring XSS + a test script that acts
> similarly to the
> TRACE method, returning request values to the
> browser.


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