Description

Codeigniter4's Secure or HttpOnly flag set in Config\Cookie is not reflected in Cookies issued

Impact

Setting $secure or $httponly value to true in Config\Cookie is not reflected in set_cookie() or Response::setCookie().

Note This vulnerability does not affect session cookies.

The following code does not issue a cookie with the secure flag even if you set $secure = true in Config\Cookie.

helper('cookie');

$cookie = [
    'name'  => $name,
    'value' => $value,
];
set_cookie($cookie);
// or...
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Patches

Upgrade to v4.2.7 or later.

Workarounds

Specify the options explicitly.

helper('cookie');

$cookie = [
    'name'     => $name,
    'value'    => $value,
    'secure'   => true,
    'httponly' => true,
];...
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Use Cookie object.

use CodeIgniter\Cookie\Cookie;

helper('cookie');

$cookie = new Cookie($name, $value);
set_cookie($cookie);
// or
$this->response->setCookie($cookie);...
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References

https://codeigniter4.github.io/userguide/helpers/cookie_helper.html#set_cookie

https://codeigniter4.github.io/userguide/outgoing/response.html#CodeIgniter\HTTP\Response::setCookie

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4

Email us at SECURITY.md

Mitigation

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