Cross-site Cooking - Origins

Origins

The name cross-site cooking and concept was presented by Michał Zalewski in 2006. The name is a mix of cookie and cross-site, attempting to describe the nature of cookies being set across sites.

In Michał Zalewski's article of 2006, Benjamin Franz was credited for his discovery, who in May 1998 reported a cookie domain related vulnerability to vendors. Benjamin Franz published the vulnerability and discussed it mainly as a way to circumvent "privacy protection" mechanisms in popular browsers. Michał Zalewski concluded that the bug, 8 years later, was still present (unresolved) in some browsers and could be exploited for cross-site cooking. Various remarks such as "vendors certainly are not in a hurry to fix this" were made by Zalewski and others.

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