cookie-attacks

cookie-attacks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,342 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cookie-attacks, MIT.

A security-testing guide for checking session cookies, which are browser-stored values used to keep a user signed in.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite settings, cookie scope and lifetime, logout behavior, caching, and token unpredictability.
Why use it?
It helps find cookie settings and session behavior that could allow account theft, cross-site attacks, session reuse after logout, or token guessing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for reviewing Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite settings, cookie scope and lifetime, logout behavior, caching, and token unpredictability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/securitytalent/bugskill-ai/cookie-attacks
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai --skill cookie-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00109 $0.02342
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00937
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00234

Measured 20d ago against content hash bb9d64b68ca7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cookie-attacks scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 20d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Sends data to an external URLlowData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

r = requests.post("https://TARGET/login",

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sI -X POST "https://TARGET/login" \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cookie-attacks — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Awesome-Claude-Code-Agent-Skills/03-Authentication-and-Access-Control/cookie-attacks/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What Is Broken and Why

Session cookies are the primary authentication artifact in web applications. Missing security attributes expose them to theft via network interception (Secure absent), JavaScript injection attacks (HttpOnly absent), cross-site request forgery (SameSite absent), and cross-subdomain theft (Domain too broad). Cookies that persist beyond the session or survive logout allow session restoration attacks. In SSO environments, application-level logout without central-portal logout leaves the authenticated state intact across all federated applications. Predictable tokens reduce the brute-force cost of session forgery to practical levels.

Key Signals

  • Set-Cookie response missing Secure flag on any session cookie
  • Set-Cookie response missing HttpOnly flag on session cookies
  • Set-Cookie with SameSite=None but application is not a cross-site embedded resource
  • SameSite attribute absent (defaults to Lax in modern browsers, but None in older ones)
  • Domain=.TARGET (leading dot) set too broadly — accessible to all subdomains
  • Path=/ for cookies that should scope to /bank or /admin
  • Session cookie has Expires far in the future or is persistent (survives browser close)
  • Cookie names lack __Host- or __Secure- prefixes
  • Authenticated page responses missing Cache-Control: no-store
  • After logout, old session cookie still returns 200 on authenticated endpoints (no server-side invalidation)
  • Back button after logout displays cached authenticated page content
  • In SSO: application logout does not invalidate central SSO session token

Methodology

  1. Attribute audit: Intercept all Set-Cookie headers across the application; check every session and auth cookie for Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, Domain, Path, Expires.
  2. Cookie prefix check: Verify whether session cookies use __Host- (strongest binding) or __Secure- prefixes.
  3. Scope verification: Test if cookies with broad Domain attributes are accessible from sibling subdomains (security boundary check).
  4. Persistence test: Close browser entirely; reopen and navigate to authenticated pages; check if session persists (persistent cookie vulnerability).
  5. Logout server-side invalidation: After logout, copy the session cookie; replay it against authenticated endpoints in Burp Repeater; observe if 200 or redirect to login.
  6. Back-button cache: Log out; press browser Back button; observe if authenticated page content is visible from cache.
  7. Session timeout: Make an authenticated request; wait incrementally; determine inactivity timeout threshold.
  8. SSO logout: Log out of application; attempt access via SSO portal without re-entering credentials; then log out of SSO portal; attempt application access.
  9. Token entropy: Feed session tokens to Burp Sequencer; collect 200+ samples; analyze for effective entropy bits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 20d ago First seen · 188 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A bb9d64b68ca7

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cookie-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,342 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to cookie-attacks, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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