Delphi : Cookie: broad domain

Classification

OWASP Top 10 2013 A2-Broken Authentication and Session Management OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016 M2-Insecure Data Storage OWASP Top 10 2017 A2-Broken Authentication A3-Sensitive Data Exposure OWASP Top 10 2021 A2-Cryptographic Failures A4-Insecure Design A7-Identification and Authentication Failures PCI DSS 4.0 6.2.4 HIPAA §164.312 (e)(1) CWE CWE-1028

Overview

Cookie domain is set broadly. Broad domain (e.g., .example.com) is insecure, because in this case the 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 2013-A5-Security Misconfiguration
  2. Origin Cookies: Session Integrity for Web Applications (pdf)
  3. OWASP Top 10 2017 A2-Broken Authentication
  4. CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A2 - Broken Authentication