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CISSP study material · question 493 of 500
A company maps support.example.com onto a support provider's infrastructure for convenience. Which consequence does OWASP's example describe?
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Answer: A. Every cookie set on the company's domain, including authentication cookies, is now sent to the provider, enabling session hijacking.
With such a mapping every cookie set on the company's domain, authentication cookies included, reaches the provider, letting anyone with access there hijack sessions.
Source: OWASP Top 10 A08:2025 (OWASP) — OWASP Top 10:2025 A08 Software or Data Integrity Failures > Example attack scenarios