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U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #723090

[HTAF4-213] [Pre-submission] HTTPOnly session cookie exposure on the /csstest endpoint

Validstatus
mediumseverity
43upvotes
18 Jun 2024disclosed

How it was found

Description

We were able to identify endpoint which prints request headers into the page. This included sensitive HTTPOnly session cookies which shouldn't be accessible in the DOM.

POC

https://█████████/csstest ███████ There will be JSESSIONID cookie reflected.

Suggested fix

Remove the page, it's content, or restrict access to it.

Impact

This in combination with any XSS attack will result in session cookie steal and likely authentication bypass (by default this isn't possible because XSS can't access HTTPOnly cookies), since attacker can request /csstest page with XSS and read the response. We will try to find one and chain the vulns together.

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