I do not believe we have anything specific for it, mostly because better
security packages that integrate the raw client do (i.e. Spring Security).


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, James Parry <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hi All,****
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> I’m not sure if this is a CAS Client issue or Tomcat but trying to doing a
> little research to try and get to the bottom of the problem so I thought I
> would check here.****
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> We have a Spring Web app using the CAS client and SAML auth against a CAS
> Server.****
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> I’m looking to try and protect the Spring Web App against Session Fixation.
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> There are two main methods of exploitation for this issue: ****
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> 1) The application sets a session ID for a non-authenticated user. When
> the user authenticates, the session ID is not changed. If the attacker can
> access this session ID token then they will be able to steal the user's
> session. ****
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> 2) The attacker can "force" the user to use a token they have created.
> This is accomplished by the attacker visiting the site and being assigned a
> session ID.  ****
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> I was wondering if the CAS client already contains protection against
> Session Fixation  and I just need to set a certain feature.****
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> A simple point in the right direction will probably be enough.****
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> Many Thanks****
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> James****
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