WebApp Sec: Re: ColdFusion - CFID & CFTOKEN

["Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity () hotpop com>]

On 11 Apr 2005 at 17:48, Jason binger wrote:

> I am currently doing some work with CF MX 6.1 and was
> wondering if anyone had some information on the
> strength of the CF cookie implementation.
>
> How random the token generation is? How is the
> generation performed?
> What is the range of the generated tokens? 
> Has an independent security analysis been performed
> and commented on in a public paper?
Well, I did research all this awhile ago (on ColdFusion 4.x and 5.0, 
if memory serves- I informed Macromedia back then, and since I wasn't 
sure what they did with it, I took caution not to explicitly name 
their product as vulnerable). The results are presented in my 
"Hacking Web Applications using Cookie Poisoning" paper of mid 2002 
(http://www.cgisecurity.com/lib/CookiePoisoningByline.pdf), see 
"Example 1".

Thanks,
-Amit