Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2011-01-31 Thread Thierry Thelliez
I just found this thread about Mixed sessions. We are experiencing the same problem with RT 3.8.7, sitting behind an Apache based proxy + load balancer. The backend is a MySQL cluster but that should not have an impact on the user sessions. We have two instances of RT connected to the same

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-11-03 Thread Jesse Vincent
This patch doesn't solve the issue. People still get mixed sessions (test was done after deleting all sessions from sessions table and restarting apache). Hang on. is mod_cache caching more than the files marked static, never changes? Since this patch should stop RT from putting cookie headers

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-11-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
Cache: no-cache but that will prevent caching at all. Seem to be no way to prevent caching cookies from application side. What's the current state of browser in-memory/on-disk caching with the Cache: no-cache header? The attached patch against 3.8.6 might be the right solution for you. I'd

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-11-02 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 02 of November 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: Cache: no-cache but that will prevent caching at all. Seem to be no way to prevent caching cookies from application side. What's the current state of browser in-memory/on-disk caching with the Cache: no-cache header? The attached patch

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-11-01 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Friday 30 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:13:33PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: I don't think I've ever seen this wtih RT, but I have seen

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-10-30 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Friday 23 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: I don't think I've ever seen this wtih RT, but I have seen it with other applications - the cause is _usually_ an HTTP proxy that's caching RT's pages. Do you have any sort of

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions [SOLVED I think!]

2009-10-30 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:13:33PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: I don't think I've ever seen this wtih RT, but I have seen it with other applications - the cause is

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 26 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:40:29PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jerrad Pierce wrote: A tool like the firefox developer toolbar is an easy way to do this. HTTPFox might be a good solution too.

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Today it happened to me. I suddently became user B in rt (opera). The real user B had his PC running with rt opened (firefox) with autorefresh every 2 minutes set but he was away from his computer. Now I verified his and mine RT_SID

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Today it happened to me. I suddently became user B in rt (opera). The real user B had his PC running with rt opened (firefox) with autorefresh every 2

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Today it happened to me. And now another story that happened just few minutes ago: I was logged in as A with session_id/cookie let say sessA. When doing something in rt I

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Today it happened to me. I suddently became user B in rt (opera). The real user B had his PC running with

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:30:49PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Today it happened to me. And now another story that happened just few minutes ago: I was

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Jerrad Pierce
[1] it sucks a little as it doesn't have save log capability Right click Copy all rows ___ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: sa...@bestpractical.com

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-29 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Thursday 29 of October 2009, Jerrad Pierce wrote: [1] it sucks a little as it doesn't have save log capability Right click Copy all rows That doesn't copy headers data, cookies etc -- Arkadiusz MiśkiewiczPLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.plhttp://ftp.pld-linux.org/

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-26 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jerrad Pierce wrote: A tool like the firefox developer toolbar is an easy way to do this. HTTPFox might be a good solution too. You can simply tell it to start tracking as you use RT, and stop it once you encounter the problem. Examine the results, debug,

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-26 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:40:29PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jerrad Pierce wrote: A tool like the firefox developer toolbar is an easy way to do this. HTTPFox might be a good solution too. You can simply tell it to start tracking as you use

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-26 Thread Leonid Mamchenkov
Hi, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:58, Jesse Vincent je...@bestpractical.com wrote: User B was logged in on it's own computer at that time but with totally different session id than three above (so I assume user A become user B with some old session of user B). *nod* Has _anybody_ else been

[rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
I have a very serious security problem with 3.8 installation (3.8.6 currently). Logged User sessions are being mixed up. One logged user is becoming another logged user as seen by rt. It happens in different moments. For example I'm user A and after clicking to view some ticket I become

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:24:01AM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: I have a very serious security problem with 3.8 installation (3.8.6 currently). Logged User sessions are being mixed up. One logged user is becoming another logged user as seen by rt. It happens in different

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:24:01AM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: I have a very serious security problem with 3.8 installation (3.8.6 currently). Logged User sessions are being mixed up. One logged user is becoming another logged

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Vincent
No proxy. Also rt is served over https. The session is really changing user because when trying to do something that user A has access to I get permission denied due to B/C not having that access. Something else is going on. * Can you capture the cookies on User A, User B, and User C's

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Friday 23 of October 2009, Jesse Vincent wrote: No proxy. Also rt is served over https. The session is really changing user because when trying to do something that user A has access to I get permission denied due to B/C not having that access. Something else is going on. * Can you

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Jerrad Pierce
  A tool like the firefox developer toolbar is an easy way to do this. HTTPFox might be a good solution too. You can simply tell it to start tracking as you use RT, and stop it once you encounter the problem. Examine the results, debug, and or sanitize and share. Everyone experiencing the

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Matthew Keller
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: I have a very serious security problem with 3.8 installation (3.8.6 currently). Logged User sessions are being mixed up. One logged user is becoming another logged user as seen by rt. It happens in different moments. Are you using HTTP authentication or RT's

Re: [rt-users] 3.8.x serious security issue with mixing sessions

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Vincent
I had this in 3.6.6, whatever was current in march 2008, april 2008 (looking at irc logs on when I tried to get some help at #rt), 3.8.2 and now 3.8.6. Maybe other too, don't remember versions. Note that the issue was gone for some time (3.8.5 for sure, 3.8.4, too afaik) but it's back