Re: SSL VPNs and security

["Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity () hotpop com>]

On 8 Jun 2006 at 22:48, Michal Zalewski wrote:

> "Web VPN" or "SSL VPN" is a term used to denote methods for accessing
> company's internal applications with a bare WWW browser, with the use of
> browser-based SSO authentication and SSL tunneling. As opposed to IPSec,
> no additional software or configuration is required, and hence, corporate
> users can use pretty much any computer they can put their hands on.


>   - Application cookies set by other applications. If passed to the
>     browser (as some SSL VPNs do), these cookies are separated by the use
>     of "path" parameter alone, which does not necessarily establish a
>     browser security domain boundary. This is equivalent to the attacker
>     obtaining user credentials to these applications.

Yes, the path field (in Set-Cookie) doesn't buy you much, see a detailed discussion in 
"Path Insecurity":
http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2006-03/msg00000.html

-Amit