Re: Session Fixation Vulnerability in Web Based Apps

2003-06-14 Thread Ben Laurie
James A. Donald wrote: -- On 12 Jun 2003 at 16:25, Steve Schear wrote: http://www.acros.si/papers/session_fixation.pdf Wow. This flaw is massive, and the biggest villain is the server side code created for Apache. When you login to your bank, your e-gold account, your

Re: Session Fixation Vulnerability in Web Based Apps

2003-06-14 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: This flaw is massive, and the biggest villain is the server side code created for Apache. Ben Laurie This isn't the case. I analysed several sites I work on for attacks of the type described when this paper first came out. None of them were vulnerable. In

Re: Session Fixation Vulnerability in Web Based Apps

2003-06-14 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 14 Jun 2003 at 21:42, Ben Laurie wrote: The obvious answer is you always switch to a new session after login. Nothing cleverer is required, surely? I had dreamed up some rathe complicated solutions. --digsig James A. Donald