Professional 1.6.17
Summary: PortSwigger released Burp Suite Professional 1.6.17 on 22 April 2015, a maintenance release of minor enhancements and bugfixes. The Proxy now generates its CA and per-host certificates with SHA256 when available and falls back to SHA1 otherwise, adds a button at Proxy / Options / Proxy Listeners to force CA regeneration, and by default strips Proxy-* headers from client requests. A cross-domain redirection bug that caused Burp to include cookies from the original request in the redirected request was fixed, which the release notes say can leak sensitive cookie data to a different and potentially untrusted domain.
Bottom line: The redirection flaw could carry cookies from an original request into a request to a different, potentially untrusted domain, exposing sensitive data in those cookies. The release also notes that scanned applications storing Burp's payloads can return Collaborator URLs in later responses, which is why the Spider now ignores them.
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