Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth)

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

On 3 May 2006 at 12:47, Amit Klein (AKsecurity) wrote:

> Bottom line: there are many known attacks against HttpOnly (and
> against Basic auth), that is, many known ways to elevate "standard" XSS condition to
> be able to grab session info/credentials stored in HttpOnly cookies/HTTP Basic auth.

BTW, while we're at it, HTTP *digest* authentication is *much* less vulnerable to exposure 
via HTTP headers, due to its dynamic nature.

-Amit

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