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When a cookie is protected with the secure attribute set to true it will not be send by the browser over an unencrypted HTTP
request and thus cannot be observed by an unauthorized person during a man-in-the-middle attack.
Ask Yourself Whether

   the cookie is for instance a session-cookie not designed to be sent over non-HTTPS communication. 
   it’s not sure that the website contains mixed content or not
  (ie HTTPS everywhere or not) 

There is a risk if you answered yes to any of those questions.
Recommended Secure Coding Practices

   It is recommended to use HTTPs everywhere so setting the secure flag to true should be the default behaviour
  when creating cookies. 
   Set the secure flag to true for session-cookies. 

Sensitive Code Example
When the HttpCookie.Secure property is set to false then the cookie will be send during an unencrypted HTTP request:
HttpCookie myCookie = new HttpCookie("Sensitive cookie");
myCookie.Secure = false; //  Sensitive: a security-sensitive cookie is created with the secure flag set to false

The default value of
Secure flag is false, unless overwritten by an application’s configuration file:
HttpCookie myCookie = new HttpCookie("Sensitive cookie");
//  Sensitive: a security-sensitive cookie is created with the secure flag not defined (by default set to false)

Compliant Solution
Set the HttpCookie.Secure property to true:
HttpCookie myCookie = new HttpCookie("Sensitive cookie");
myCookie.Secure = true; // Compliant

Or change the default flag values for the whole application by editing the Web.config configuration file:
<httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true" requireSSL="true" />


   the requireSSL attribute corresponds programmatically to the Secure field. 
   the httpOnlyCookies attribute corresponds programmatically to the httpOnly field. 

See

   OWASP - Top 10 2021 Category A4 - Insecure Design 
   OWASP - Top 10 2021 Category A5 - Security Misconfiguration 
   OWASP - Top 10 2017 Category A3 - Sensitive Data
  Exposure 
   CWE - CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data 
   CWE - CWE-315 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie 
   CWE - CWE-614 - Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute 
   STIG Viewer - Application Security and
  Development: V-222576 - The application must set the secure flag on session cookies.