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Re: Whitepaper "SESSION RIDING - A Widespread Vulnerability in Today's Web Applications"
Dec 22 2004 06:17PM
Florian Weimer (fw deneb enyo de)
* Elihu Smails:
> Sessions should track the remote IP address of the
> client at a minimum
Only if you don't like AOL users. Load-balanced proxies with
different outgoing IP addresses are common.
> so that this problem could go away.
It doesn't, users behind the same proxy can attack each other...
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> Sessions should track the remote IP address of the
> client at a minimum
Only if you don't like AOL users. Load-balanced proxies with
different outgoing IP addresses are common.
> so that this problem could go away.
It doesn't, users behind the same proxy can attack each other...
[ more ]