Attacking Access Controls
Common Vulnerabilities Access controls can be divided into two broad categories: vertical and horizontal. Vertical access controls allow different types
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Log, Monitor, and Alert
The application’s session management functionality should be closely integrated with its mechanisms for logging, monitoring, and alerting, in order to
Read moreLiberal Cookie Scope
The usual simple summary of how cookies work is that the server issues a cookie using the HTTP response header
Read moreDisclosure of Tokens in Logs
Aside from the clear-text transmission of session tokens in network communications, the most common place where tokens are simply disclosed
Read moreWeaknesses in Session Token Handling
No matter how effective an application is at ensuring that the session tokens it generates do not contain any meaningful
Read morePredictable Tokens
Some session tokens do not contain any meaningful data associating them with a particular user but are nevertheless guessable because
Read moreWeaknesses in Session Token Generation
Session management mechanisms are often vulnerable to attack because tokens are generated in an unsafe manner that enables an attacker
Read moreAttacking Session Management
The session management mechanism is a fundamental security component in the majority of web applications. It is what enables the
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Implementing a secure authentication solution involves attempting to simultaneously meet several key security objectives, and in many cases trade off
Read moreDefects in Multistage Login Mechanisms
Some applications use elaborate login mechanisms involving multiple stages. For example: ■ Entry of a username and password. ■ A
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