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Config files : Cookie: broad path

Classification

OWASP Top 10 2013
A2-Broken Authentication and Session Management
OWASP Top 10 2017
A2-Broken AuthenticationA3-Sensitive Data Exposure
OWASP Top 10 2021
A2-Cryptographic FailuresA4-Insecure DesignA7-Identification and Authentication Failures
OWASP ASVS
Session Management
PCI DSS 4.0
6.2.4
HIPAA
§164.312 (e)(1)
CWE
CWE-1028

Overview

Cookie path is set broadly. Broad path (for example, /) is not safe, because in this case a vulnerability in one application could endanger other applications in the same domain.

Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerabilities take the third place in the “OWASP Top 10 2017” web-application vulnerabilities ranking.

References

  1. OWASP Top 10 2017 A2-Broken Authentication
  2. OWASP Top 10 2013-A5-Security Misconfiguration
  3. Origin Cookies: Session Integrity for Web Applications (pdf)
  4. Securing Session INI Settings - php.net
  5. CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A2 - Broken Authentication
LOW

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