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Nextcloud · Report #341372

The session token in the URL

Informativestatus
mediumseverity
11upvotes
19 Jun 2018disclosed

How it was found

Hello team I found that tat the URL transport the Session token and it's a sentive information so Placing session tokens into the URL increases the risk that they will be captured by an attacker.

fix

Applications should use an alternative mechanism for transmitting session tokens, such as HTTP cookies or hidden fields in forms that are submitted using the POST method.

Impact

an attacker can capture these tokens

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