The __Host- cookie prefix requires Secure and Path slash and forbids Domain, or the cookie is dropped
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:05.143Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:05.143Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Browsers enforce the prefix contracts. A __Host- cookie must carry Secure, must have a path of exactly the root, and must have no Domain attribute, which makes it host-only and impossible for a sibling subdomain to set or overwrite. A __Secure- cookie only requires Secure.
Violating either contract means silent rejection with no signal to the server. This is the strongest available defense against cookie tossing, where a compromised or third-party subdomain sets a session cookie that the parent domain then accepts, and it is worth using for session cookies on any domain whose subdomains you do not fully control. The cost is that it is fundamentally incompatible with sharing a cookie across subdomains.
Source: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6265
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