OWASP Annotated Application Security Verification Standard
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    • 3.4 Cookie-based Session Management
      • 3.4.1 Cookie-based session tokens have the ‘Secure’ attribute set
      • 3.4.2 Cookie-based session tokens have the ‘HttpOnly’ attribute set
      • 3.4.3 Cookie-based session tokens utilize the ‘SameSite’ attribute
      • 3.4.4 Cookie-based session tokens provide session cookie confidentiality
      • 3.4.5 The application is published under a domain name with other applications that set or use session cookies that might override or disclose the session cookie
    • 3.5 Token-based Session Management
    • 3.6 Re-authentication from a Federation or Assertion
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  • 3.4.4 Cookie-based session tokens provide session cookie confidentiality

3.4.4 Cookie-based session tokens provide session cookie confidentiality¶

Verify that cookie-based session tokens use “__Host-” prefix (see references) to provide session cookie confidentiality.

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