Later archive addition

Are Your Cookies Telling Your Fortune?

The paper measures weak signing secrets in Node.js applications using cookie-session and public OSINT. It gathers candidate secrets, cracks signed cookies, and demonstrates how recovered keys can forge authenticated session state in Passport applications using both OpenID and local authentication.

Record

Format

Whitepaper

In the archive

• Added to the 2018 archive after the original list was published

Tags

• session-cookie
• nodejs
• predictable-token
• auth-bypass
• openid
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a02-2021
• owasp-a07-2021

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