Cross Site Cooking
Michal Zalewski identifies a new class of attacks, that he dubs Cross Site Cooking:
There are three fairly interesting flaws in how HTTP cookies were
designed and later implemented in various browsers; these shortcomings
make it possible (and alarmingly easy) for malicious sites to plant
spoofed cookies that will be relayed by unsuspecting visitors to
legitimate, third-party servers.
While a well-coded web application should be designed to resist attacks from hostile HTTP clients, these new attacks turn every browser into a hostile HTTP client, and it’s a good bet that many web applications are hanging on a pretty thin thread of “this can’t happen” assumptions, soon to be violated. Expect a large number of embarrassing vulnerability reports to ensue.
