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Objective-C : Cookie: broad path

Classification

OWASP Mobile Top 10 2014
M9-Improper Session Handling
OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016
M4-Insecure AuthenticationM2-Insecure Data Storage
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 (e.g., /) is insecure, because in this case the vulnerability in one application may 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. NSHTTPCookieStorage - developer.apple.com
  4. OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016-M4-Insecure Authentication
MEDIUM

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See also

Objective-C

Objective-C : Internal information leak

Objective-C

Objective-C : Weak hashing algorithm

Objective-C

Objective-C : Unsafe reflection