Difference between revisions of "Testing for cookies attributes (OTG-SESS-002)"

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OWASP Testing Guide v3 Table of Contents

This article is part of the OWASP Testing Guide v3. The entire OWASP Testing Guide v3 can be downloaded here.

OWASP at the moment is working at the OWASP Testing Guide v4: you can browse the Guide here

This is a draft of a section of the new Testing Guide v3

Brief Summary

Cookies are often a key attack vector for malicious users and as such the application should always take due diligence to protect them. In this section we will look at how an application can take the necessary precautions when assigning cookies and how to test that these attributes have been correctly configured.

Description of the Issue

...here: Short Description of the Issue: Topic and Explanation

Black Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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Result Expected:
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Gray Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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Result Expected:
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References

Whitepapers
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Tools

• Intercepting Proxy
• Browser Plug-in

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