Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#3716 closed (duplicate)

[patch] Introducing newsessions

Reported by: Anton Khalikov <anton@…> Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Core (Other) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Hello everyone

Firstly, there is an old ticket #1180 which was reopened by me today. The problem with current sessions is that there is a chance to get session duplicate 'by design' because there is a time between generating a new session id and checking it to be clean and actually save new session with this id to db. So, any django-powered project with high traffic.

newsessions is a fork of old sessions but it has completely different approach to the way of generating new sessions: it actually creates a new empty session with unique id in database and returns it so there is 100% guarantee that there will be no duplicates.

Also, there is another problem in sessions module: if any malicious user scans network traffic, there is a chance for him to get one's session id and successfully use it because django has no mechanisms to check for IP from where a session was created and from where it is actually used. Ofcourse, newsessions has no such problem because of built-in ip checking :)

newsession module uses other table than django_session so everyone who wants to try this module doesn't need to break anything. Everything you need is to change django.contrib.session.* to django.contrib.newsession.* in your settings.py

Attachments (1)

newsessions.patch (7.6 KB ) - added by Anton Khalikov <anton@…> 17 years ago.
newsessions module

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Change History (5)

by Anton Khalikov <anton@…>, 17 years ago

Attachment: newsessions.patch added

newsessions module

comment:1 by anonymous, 17 years ago

Oops, lost my idea here:
So, any django-powered project with high traffic .... may be vulnerable.

comment:2 by Chris Beaven, 17 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

If the problem with (old)sessions is as you state, then definitely something needs to change.

I'm not quite sure about the session-IP tie, I think it came up a long time ago and the devs weren't sold on it. Either way, this is worth bringing up in the developer group for discussion. Here is a post to get things rolling.

comment:3 by Anton Khalikov <anton@…>, 17 years ago

SmileyChris, the reason why I called my stuff 'newsessions' is - they have different table structure which is not compatible with current session model. Use them or not - it's up to you guys, but as I said, your current model of sessions is vulnerable by default (it was designed to be vulnerable).

comment:4 by Simon G. <dev@…>, 17 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Marking as duplicate as #1180 has more discussion about this. Please continue there.

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