#SecureSession

The Problems and Solutions

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project

One picked: Top 10 2010-A3-Broken Authentication and Session Management

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-A3

sessions in the URL & session hijacing

If you have a session in the url it is a sign for a low level attempt to hijack a session. So, if we find a session in the url, we destroy the session.

If the hacker is better, he uses cookies - as the user does, so we change the session id for every request, what means, the time frame for hijacking the session is very much shorter.

session fixation attacks & session id change after login

One way is to steal the sessionid for a authenticated user, the other way is to generate a session and then let the user use this generated session id to authenticate.

If we set a new cookie and generate a new session id after login, this can no longer happen

session id only transported over https (TODO)

We check in the backend wether the secure and unsecure URL are https urls, if not we show a warning dialog.