I'm building an application in Laravel 5.1 for a client. After I finished the application I got back an pentest report which tells me to add a HttpOnly flag. I added 'secure' => true and 'http_only' => true to app/config/session.php. The httpOnly flag is set for all sessions, except the XSRF-TOKEN session. How am I able to set this flag as well?
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You are able to overwrite the method addCookieToResponse($request, $response) in App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken
/**
* Add the CSRF token to the response cookies.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* @param \Illuminate\Http\Response $response
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
protected function addCookieToResponse($request, $response)
{
$response->headers->setCookie(
new Cookie('XSRF-TOKEN',
$request->session()->token(),
time() + 60 * 120,
'/',
null,
config('session.secure'),
false)
);
return $response;
}
And do not forget to add
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;

Stefan Riehl
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2If you want the httpOnly flag to be set to true, the last argument into Cookie() method must be true: `$response->headers->setCookie( new Cookie('XSRF-TOKEN', $request->session()->token(), time() + 60 * 120, '/', null, config('session.secure'), true)` – Yoga Dec 12 '16 at 12:08
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For complete solution: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.3/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php#L139 – Mushfiqur Rahman Sep 25 '18 at 09:03
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This can be fixed. If you need http only for token add this to VerifyCsrfToken middleware:
/**
* Add the CSRF token to the response cookies.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response $response
* @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
*/
protected function addCookieToResponse($request, $response)
{
$config = config('session');
$response->headers->setCookie(
new Cookie(
'XSRF-TOKEN', $request->session()->token(), $this->availableAt(60 * $config['lifetime']),
$config['path'], $config['domain'], $config['secure'], true, false, $config['same_site'] ?? null
)
);
return $response;
}

Rawelja
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You must use in .env
SESSION_DOMAIN=
SESSION_SECURE_COOKIE=true
SESSION_HTTP_ONLY=true
SESSION_SAME_SITE=strict

OmidDarvishi
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