full-disclosure - Re: Predefined Post Authentication Session ID Vulnerability

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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:06:10 +0200
From: Jann Horn <jannhorn@...glemail.com>
To: Gokhan Muharremoglu <gokhan.muharremoglu@...ec.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Predefined Post Authentication Session ID
 Vulnerability

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:34:11AM +0300, Gokhan Muharremoglu wrote:
> Vulnerability Name: Predefined Post Authentication Session ID Vulnerability 
> Type: Improper Session Handling
> Impact: Session Hijacking
> Level: Medium
> Date: 10.07.2012
> Vendor: Vendor-neutral
> Issuer: Gokhan Muharremoglu
> E-mail: gokhan.muharremoglu@...ec.org
> 
> 
> VULNERABILITY
> If a web application starts a session and defines a session id before a user
> authenticated, this session id must be changed after a successful
> authentication. If web application uses the same session id before and after
> authentication, any legitimate user who has gained the "before
> authentication" session id can hijack future "after authentication" sessions
> too.

Uh, so, erm, you assume that someone can steal my cookie/set it/whatever
although the Same Origin Policy should clearly not allow that, and then, after
I have logged in, he can't just steal my cookie? Unless you allow setting the
session-ID via an URL or so (which would IMO be pretty stupid), I can't see
how this is a realistic, vendor-neutral attack. Could you explain this a bit
better? I don't get it.

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