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CWE-539: Use of Persistent Cookies Containing Sensitive Information

Variant Incomplete

The web application uses persistent cookies, but the cookies contain sensitive information.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)

  1. Architecture and Design

    Do not store sensitive information in persistent cookies.

Source: MITRE CWE-539

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  • High 8.0
    CVE-2024-39275

    Advantech ADAM-5630 Use of Persistent Cookies Containing Sensitive Information

    Cookies of authenticated Advantech ADAM-5630 users remain as active valid cookies when a session is closed. Forging requests with a legitimate cookie, even if the session was terminated, allows an unauthorized attacker to act with the same level of privileges…

    Advantech ADAM-5630
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2023-30861 Public exploit

    Flask vulnerable to possible disclosure of permanent session cookie due to missing Vary: Cookie header

    Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework. When all of the following conditions are met, a response containing data intended for one client may be cached and subsequently sent by the proxy to other clients. If the proxy also caches `Set-Cookie` he…

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