Am 14.09.2012 18:42, schrieb Andres Riancho:
> Achim,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Achim Hoffmann <webse...@sic-sec.org> wrote:
...
>> What w3af can do is to provide a parameter where to specify cookie names
>> to be ignored. But be prepared for a huge name-checking-nightmare as
>> the same cookie name can be used in different realms on the same application
>> and have different purposes there.
> 
> Then we don't support that and avoid nightmares :)

IMHO listing all cookies as warning is a lean solution, better than having a
sophisticated one with the risk (in w3af) of false negatives.

A step to make the results more comfortable for (dumb:) w3af users might be to
just name the session cookies which then can be highlighted as "high" insecure.

Achim

KISS - keep it simple stupid

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