Cookie Jar Overflow
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The browsers have a limit on the number of cookies that they can store for a page. Then, if for some reason you need to make a cookie disappear, you can overflow the cookie jar as the oldest ones will be deleted before:
Notice, that third party cookies pointing to a different domain won't be overwritten.
This attack can also be used to overwrite HttpOnly cookies as you can delete it and then reset it with the value you want.
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