[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Remove securecookie in VolkswagenBank rule

Seth David Schoen schoen at eff.org
Tue Feb 21 14:28:30 PST 2012


Felix Geyer writes:

> Logging in to Volkswagen Bank doesn't work anymore
> when securecookie is forced.
> 
> Please import the attached patch.

That is a bad sign because it means that the bank's users could be
vulnerable to an attack.  Does anyone have a way to contact them about
this?

See

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/deploying-https

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Network_eavesdropping  (the
attacker can make a _different_ page generate a non-HTTPS link to the
bank's site to cause the cookie to be sent over the request for the
non-HTTPS resource)

I'll apply your patch in the meantime, though.

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