Why are session cookies not considered sensitive?

[Tobias Bengfort]

Hi,

AFAIU, SafeExceptionReporterFilter takes care of removing any sensitive
data from logs. However, I today realized that this does not cover
session cookies.

In a ticket about this issue[1] it was treated not as a security issue
but more as a request for customization. That puzzled me a bit. Why are
session cookies not treated as sensitive, just like passwords are?

thanks,
tobias


[1]: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29714

[Florian Apolloner]

Hi,

I agree that we should treat session cookies as sensitive and hide them like we do with passwords. That said, please be aware that all the SafeException reporters are best effort and it is generally not possible to have a "safe" exception.

In that sense, patches welcome but we are not going to treat this as security issue (ie no backporting).

Cheers,

Florian