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Cookie Path Traversal

An encoded backslash in the request path, as in /en/us/test/..%5Cdefault.aspx, is a directory delimiter to IIS but not to the browser, so a cookie scoped to a path it should never reach gets sent anyway. Works in the then-current IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Useful mainly for lifting httpOnly cookies when header disclosure exists at one path and the cookie belongs to another.

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