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Dave Cottlehuber commented on COUCHDB-1073:
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I discovered the same issue last night; still digging in the code but this just
smells bad. What does DELETE _session actually do then?
> DELETE _session doesn't delete the session. Client can still get user
> information using GET _session and with the session cookie retrieved.
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> Key: COUCHDB-1073
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1073
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Johnny Weng Luu
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> When using DELETE _session CouchDB only sends a empty session cookie back.
> But if I use the original session cookie when using GET _session I can still
> get the user information.
> https://gist.github.com/838996
> This could be a security flaw because when the user leaves the computer a
> hacker can check out the session cookie and log in to account.
> Very bad if it's a very sensitive web application like financial.
> Isn't it better to just delete the session internally in couchdb when DELETE
> _session is used. Then that session cookie the hacker gets won't matter
> because the session is already gone.
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