Hello Curt,

Yes, the /. system depends on cookies to keep the user logged in.

However a CSRF attack is NOT trying to access a third party cookie.

The web browser make the same GET request whether it is using <img/> TAG 
or the user clicking on a link. So in either case the cookies are in the 
context of the website to which the cookies belong.

Maybe Chris can correct me, if I am wrong here.

Thanks.
Saqib Ali
http://validate.sf.net <<< XHTML/DocBook XML Validator and Transformer



Curt Zirzow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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Re: [PHP] CSRF attack not possible in I.E. 6.01 SP1?






* Thus wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hello Chris,
> 
> I can't share the exact code ;) , but here is something very similar:
> 
> <img src="http://slashdot.org/my/logout"; height="1" width="1">
> 
> If I load a web page with the above code, it should log me out of 
> slashdot. It works in Mozilla (and netscape), but not in I.E. 6.01 SP1

I'm not sure how the /. logout system works, but my guess is that
they rely on cookies to do this.  Since that is a different site
than from the originating file, those cookies would be considered
third party.  I know in IE you can disable third party cookie access.


Curt
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