Posted by Sandro Gauci on Dec 22

The most technical it seems to get is the following:

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The Misfortune Cookie vulnerability is exploitable due to an error within
the HTTP cookie management mechanism present in the affected software,
allowing an attacker to determine the ‘fortune’ of a request by
manipulating cookies. Attackers can send specially crafted HTTP cookies
that exploit the vulnerability to corrupt memory and alter the application
state. This, in…