Packing Sniffing Vulnerability

Underlying network traffic can be read by an attacker and a web page or application session can be reconstructed in an attempt to collect passwords or other data.

• http://www.ethereal.com/

For sensitive data, use encryption. The most common method for accomplishing this is the use of SSL/TLS. SSL/TLS is used to encrypt a higher-level protocol such as HTTP.

• See web application security and security vulnerabilities catalog.
• http://www.openssl.org/