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Igor Vaynberg commented on WICKET-1767:
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the stale state might not be in the actual httpsession, but it remains in
wicket's session object attached to the current thread, and is not synced into
httpsession until the end of requests afaik. so there is still a problem there,
because between you calling invalidate() and the end of the request you can
have business logic acting on old values it stored in wicket's session object.
> Protection against Session Fixation
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>
> Key: WICKET-1767
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1767
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wicket
> Affects Versions: 1.3.4
> Reporter: Jörn Zaefferer
>
> Securing a Wicket application against Session Fixation attacks
> (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Fixation) is currently not trivial.
> This is especially problematic as most Java webservers fall back to URL
> rewriting when the user disabled cookies. The session is gets appended to the
> URL and its trivial to steal a session.
> To protect against session fixation, the HTTP session must be invalidated and
> recreated on login, giving the user a new session id. The following code does
> exactly that, it must be called before loggin in the user (eg. store
> credentials). A redirect isn't required, though it should be part of the
> login-form anyway.
> ISessionStore store = Application.get().getSessionStore();
> Request request = RequestCycle.get().getRequest();
> store.invalidate(request);
> Session session = Application.get().newSession(request,
> RequestCycle.get().getResponse());
> session.bind();
> store.bind(request, session);
> Calling session.invalidateNow() does NOT work (I have no idea why).
> I'd like to see support for this as part of Wicket - it took me about 6 hours
> to figure out the Wicket internals and produce these 6 lines of code. Others
> shouldn't have to bother with that.
> I can't provide a testcase. Applications work fine without the addition, but
> leave users vulnerable to the session-fixation. Manual testing has to look at
> the session id (eg. via Firebug's Net tab) before and after a login.
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