July 14, 2011
Client Variable Cookie CFGLOBALS Includes Session Ids
I was recently conducting a CFML security review for a client and realized that when you have client variables set to use Cookies, the session ID's (eg CFIDE and CFTOKEN) are included in the CFGLOBALS cookie.
September 13, 2010
Setting up HTTPOnly Session Cookies for ColdFusion
Internet Explorer pioneered a great security feature for cookies called HTTPOnly, when this flag is set the browser does not allow JavaScript to access the cookie. Now that all modern browsers support this flag it can reduce the risk of session hijacking due to cross site scripting.
July 19, 2007
Firefox Now Supports HttpOnly Cookies
You may be surprised to learn that Microsoft Internet Explorer has supported a a security feature called HttpOnly cookies since IE 6 SP1.Firefox 2.0.0.5, which was released just the other day, now supports it.





