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Bug Bounty Tip: Session Fixation via Unrotated Session IDs

DEV Community: owasp·Abhinav Singwal·about 22 hours ago
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Abhinav Singwal

Look for:

GET /login setting a Set-Cookie: session=abc before authentication.

Test by grabbing that pre-auth session ID, logging in with it, and checking if the same session ID remains valid after login or if logging in from another browser with a forced session cookie grants access.

If the session ID is not rotated post-authentication, it may indicate Session Fixation, enabling account takeover when an attacker plants a known session ID on a victim.

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BugBounty #SessionFixation #AccountTakeover #CookieSecurity #InfoSec