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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2014/06/24 16:03:26 UTC

[Bug 56666] New: Improve code that clears SSO cookie

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56666

            Bug ID: 56666
           Summary: Improve code that clears SSO cookie
           Product: Tomcat 8
           Version: 8.0.8
          Hardware: PC
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: knst.kolinko@gmail.com

Thread on users@: "Regarding JSESSIONIDSSO Cookie maintained by tomcat"
http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/y7m6ceiusm65p5bc

The code for clearing the cookie is in
o.a.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn.invoke(...)

[[[
            cookie.setMaxAge(0);
            response.addCookie(cookie);
]]]

The code for setting the cookie is in
o.a.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.register(...)


I see the following issues with the code that clears the cookie in
SingleSignOn.invoke():

1). The cookie value is echoed back.
To clear a cookie it should be enough to use any fixed value.

(OP concerns are that Secure and HttpOnly flags are not set on the Set-Cookie
header. It should not be an issue, as the value is known to be invalid, and as
browser is expected to immediately remove the cookie. Still I can agree that it
is not pretty).

2) The Domain and Path attributes should have the same values as for a newly
created SSO cookie.

(The new cookie replaces the old cookie if it has the same name, domain and
path. - RFC 6265 page 24
- Chapter 5.3. Storage Model, item 11)


BTW, an unrelated issue:
The code in SingleSignOn.invoke() operates on the first SSO cookie that it
finds. It does not expect browser to send several cookies with this name.

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[Bug 56666] Improve code that clears SSO cookie

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56666

Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 OS|                            |All

--- Comment #1 from Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> ---
Fixed in 8.0.x for 8.0.10 onwards.

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[Bug 56666] Improve code that clears SSO cookie

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56666

Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> ---
Fixed in 7.0.x for 7.0.55 onwards.

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