Always enable HttpOnly for cookies in Config file | CAST Appmarq

Always enable HttpOnly for cookies in Config file


Rule Definition
The Secure attribute for sensitive cookies in HTTPS sessions is not set, which could cause the user agent to send those cookies in plaintext over an HTTP session.

Remediation
Always setting httponly option when creating a cookie

Violation Code Sample
<!--in xml config file-->
<system.web>
  <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="false" />
</system.web>
Fixed Code Sample
<!--in xml config file-->
<system.web>
  <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true"   />
</system.web>

Reference
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/614.html https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A6-Sensitive_Data_Exposure https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_A3-Sensitive_Data_Exposure https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aspnetue/2010/09/17/best-practices-for-asp-net-mvc/

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Health Factor

  Total Quality Index


Technical Criterion
Secure Coding - Encapsulation

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Global Compliance

nan%

Total Violations
0
Total Opportunities
0
Average Violations / App.
nan
The compliance score represents 1 minus the ratio between the number of times a rule has been violated compared to the number of opportunities in a set of applications that the rule could have been violated.

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