Bug 713477

Summary:	[RFE] RHN Satellite / Spacewalk: Enable HTTPOnly cookies support in Satellite / Spacewalk (CWE-79)
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	WebUI	Assignee:	Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Minar <mminar>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	541	CC:	cperry, csuleski, d.muturi, jhutar, jpazdziora, jskrabal, mkoci, mminar, mmraka, mzazrivec, security-response-team, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	public=20110915,reported=20110522,source=secalert,impact=none,cvss2=0
Fixed In Version:	spacewalk-config-1.2.2-7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	622406, 677498

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-15 14:09:22 UTC

Implementing support for HTTPOnly cookies (access allowed only for server
and prohibited for client script) in Red Hat Network Satellite / Spacewalk
services could block exploitation of some XSS flaws.

References:
[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/protecting-your-cookies-httponly.html
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/528405/which-browsers-do-support-httponly-cookies
[3] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HttpOnly
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#HttpOnly_cookie
[5] http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p25.pdf
[6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33412/how-do-you-configure-httponly-cookies-in-tomcat-java-webapps

Comment 5 Clifford Perry 2011-06-15 17:50:36 UTC

*** Bug 710620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2011-09-15 17:55:57 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1299.html

Comment 24 Michael Mráka 2011-09-16 09:19:48 UTC

The issue has been addressed in Spacewalk master by
commit a779c73eab6a65f38a03d8fb27b06cc1f71842fc
    713477 - made session cookies httponly

Fixed package: spacewalk-config-1.6.2-1