#33475: Add a SESSION_KEY_LENGTH setting
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Reporter: jecarr | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.sessions | Version: 4.0
Severity: Normal | Keywords: session
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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I was reviewing how sessions were made and came across how the session key
is
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/4.0.x/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py#L142
at a fixed length of 32 characters]. I wondered if we could have a setting
that changes this?
Rationale:
-
[https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Session_Management_Cheat_Sheet.html
#session-id-length OWASP-recommended session ID length] which therefore
might influence security auditors (although I do acknowledge their point
about the minimum isn't an absolute pending other implementation factors).
- I also did follow the steps to
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/http/sessions/#extending-
database-backed-session-engines extend the default Session management] and
it resulted in a pointer table (a new table for my model extending
Django's Session model, where it references the django_session table). I
don't mind this but if all I wanted was to adjust the session key length,
I think a setting would be more efficient than introducing a new DB-table.
Impact-on-codebase: Whether
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/4.0.x/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py#L156
minimum] and
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/4.0.x/django/contrib/sessions/base_session.py#L27
maximum] session-key-length checks need to be called anywhere else
Apologies if I've overlooked anything which results in a wontfix; thanks!
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