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Session management 4

There may be reasons to share sessions across multiple applications, but if one of those applications is less secure it might be used to compromise another.

How to play?

Alison can set session identification cookies on another web application because the domain and path are not restricted sufficiently

Mappings

Owasp ASVS (4.0): 3.4.1-3.4.5

Capec: 31 ,61

Owasp SCP: 59,61

Owasp Appsensor: SE2

Safecode: 28

ASVS (4.0) Cheatsheetseries Index

ASVS V3.4 - Cookie-based Session Management

Attacks

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Password Guessing/Brute Force Attacks

Session Fixation

Session Hijacking (Man-in-the-Middle)

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