Consider another carelessly written web application which uses a servlet that checks if there was an active

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Consider another carelessly written web application which uses a servlet that checks if there was an active session but does not check if the user is authorized to access that page, instead depending on the fact that a link to the page is shown only to authorized users. What is the risk with this scheme? (There was a real instance where applicants to a college admissions site could, after logging into the web site, exploit this loophole and view information they were not authorized to see; the unauthorized access was, however, detected, and those who accessed the information were punished by being denied admission.)

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Database System Concepts

ISBN: 9780078022159

7th Edition

Authors: Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

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