Re:Core flaw of Cookies
by homakov on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:50AM
(#6082006)
Not true, two pretty different techniques. Forcing is about dropping HTTP cookies to https using mitm
Fixation is session riding
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I disagree. The point in either case is to get a cookie of the attacker's choosing accepted as the session identifier for the privileged domain.
But even if we consider them separate techniques, the mitigation strategy is identical anyway.