[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-1361) invalidate session after scheme change
Christian Bauer (JIRA)
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Tue Jun 5 09:17:08 EDT 2007
[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1361?page=comments#action_12364203 ]
Christian Bauer commented on JBSEAM-1361:
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XSS is one of the easiest attacks possible. Attacking a TCP connection in the middle is much more difficult (and certainly not done by todays script kiddies). Note that JSF applications _in general_ are not vulnerable to XSS attacks because rendered output from the application is by default escaped with HTML entities.
> invalidate session after scheme change
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> Key: JBSEAM-1361
> URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1361
> Project: JBoss Seam
> Issue Type: Feature Request
> Components: Security
> Affects Versions: 1.2.1.GA
> Environment: general feature
> Reporter: fguerzoni
> Assigned To: Gavin King
> Fix For: 1.3.0.ALPHA
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> I noticed that sessionId cookie sent to client before authentication remains the same even after login succedeed. This could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack because pre-login sessionId could be easily sniffed.
> So, it would be very nice if it should be possible to do a session switching on server side forcing a pre-login session invalidation and a new session creation (request.getSession(true)) as soon as client authenticates. Old session data should then be copied to new session.
> In this case a new sessionId cookie will be sent to client: client will use this ticket during next requests.
> This mechanism collides with the actual Seam implementations where Lifecycle.endSession is called after a session.invalidate
> I think that Seam should automatically execute this task during the authentication phase.
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