Inadvertant Session Hijacking
| From: | Thomas Deliduka | Date: | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:15:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Inadvertant Session Hijacking | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Now this is not the malicious kind where a user intentionally takes over
another session. I'm speaking of a case where the random session ID
generator happens to give another user someone else's session whether active
or inactive (inactive and not yet cleared by garbage collection).
I had a case just this weekend where this happened, a user got another
visitor's shopping cart. The potential is for someone to get another
person's logged in session. The site I work with gets 5,000 unique visitors
a day, it's a very very busy website and I'm thinking that garbage
collection isn't up to snuff or that the random ID generation isn't quite
random enough.
What can I do about this? I have increased the percentage of garbage
collection already, what else can I do?
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Thomas Deliduka
IT Manager
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Xenocast
Street Smart Media Solutions
http://www.xenocast.com/