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Leonardo Uribe commented on MYFACES-4133:
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Encryption should NEVER be disabled for view state token, because there is no
safe way to make it work with this disabled, but beyond that, I agree serialize
the session id is not necessary on server side state saving.
Please note encryption also adds a Message Authentication Code (MAC) that
protects the view state token against tampering and other attacks, but this
works together with the encryption.
It's more, maybe it is a good idea to change the default encryption algorithm
to AES or something.
> Don't deserialize the ViewState-ID if the state saving method is server
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>
> Key: MYFACES-4133
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-4133
> Project: MyFaces Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: General
> Affects Versions: 2.2.12
> Reporter: Peter Stöckli
>
> Currently the ViewState-ID provided by the user is deserialized via Java
> deserialization even when the {{javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD}} is set to
> {{server}} (the default).
> The deserialization in this case is unecessary and most likely even slower
> than just sending the ViewState Id directly.
> If a developer now disables the ViewState encryption by setting
> {{org.apache.myfaces.USE_ENCRYPTION}} to {{false}} (against the [MyFaces
> security advice|https://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Secure_Your_Application]) he
> might have unintentionally introduced a dangerous remote code execution (RCE)
> vulnerability as described
> [here|https://www.alphabot.com/security/blog/2017/java/Misconfigured-JSF-ViewStates-can-lead-to-severe-RCE-vulnerabilities.html].
> This has been discussed before on [Issue
> MYFACES-4021|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-4021].
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