org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session

Class SessionFixationProtectionStrategy

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.SessionFixationProtectionStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.beans.factory.Aware, org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisherAware, SessionAuthenticationStrategy

public class SessionFixationProtectionStrategy
extends java.lang.Object

Uses HttpServletRequest.invalidate() to protect against session fixation attacks.

Creates a new session for the newly authenticated user if they already have a session (as a defence against session-fixation protection attacks), and copies their session attributes across to the new session. The copying of the attributes can be disabled by setting migrateSessionAttributes to false (note that even in this case, internal Spring Security attributes will still be migrated to the new session).

This approach will only be effective if your servlet container always assigns a new session Id when a session is invalidated and a new session created by calling HttpServletRequest.getSession().

Issues with HttpSessionBindingListener

The migration of existing attributes to the newly-created session may cause problems if any of the objects implement the HttpSessionBindingListener interface in a way which makes assumptions about the life-cycle of the object. An example is the use of Spring session-scoped beans, where the initial removal of the bean from the session will cause the DisposableBean interface to be invoked, in the assumption that the bean is no longer required.

We'd recommend that you take account of this when designing your application and do not store attributes which may not function correctly when they are removed and then placed back in the session. Alternatively, you should customize the SessionAuthenticationStrategy to deal with the issue in an application-specific way.

Since:

3.0

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
protected static class	org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.AbstractSessionFixationProtectionStrategy.NullEventPublisher

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected org.apache.commons.logging.Log	logger

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SessionFixationProtectionStrategy()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object>	extractAttributes(javax.servlet.http.HttpSession session) Called to extract the existing attributes from the session, prior to invalidating it.
void	onAuthentication(Authentication authentication, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Called when a user is newly authenticated.
protected void	onSessionChange(java.lang.String originalSessionId, javax.servlet.http.HttpSession newSession, Authentication auth) Called when the session has been changed and the old attributes have been migrated to the new session.
void	setAlwaysCreateSession(boolean alwaysCreateSession)
void	setApplicationEventPublisher(org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher applicationEventPublisher) Sets the ApplicationEventPublisher to use for submitting SessionFixationProtectionEvent.
void	setMigrateSessionAttributes(boolean migrateSessionAttributes) Defines whether attributes should be migrated to a new session or not.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

protected final org.apache.commons.logging.Log logger

Constructor Detail

SessionFixationProtectionStrategy

public SessionFixationProtectionStrategy()

Method Detail

extractAttributes

protected java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> extractAttributes(javax.servlet.http.HttpSession session)

Called to extract the existing attributes from the session, prior to invalidating it. If migrateAttributes is set to false, only Spring Security attributes will be retained. All application attributes will be discarded.

You can override this method to control exactly what is transferred to the new session.

Parameters:

session - the session from which the attributes should be extracted

Returns:

the map of session attributes which should be transferred to the new session

setMigrateSessionAttributes

public void setMigrateSessionAttributes(boolean migrateSessionAttributes)

Defines whether attributes should be migrated to a new session or not. Has no effect if you override the extractAttributes method.

Attributes used by Spring Security (to store cached requests, for example) will still be retained by default, even if you set this value to false.

Parameters:

migrateSessionAttributes - whether the attributes from the session should be transferred to the new, authenticated session.

onAuthentication

public void onAuthentication(Authentication authentication,
                             javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                             javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Called when a user is newly authenticated.

If a session already exists, and matches the session Id from the client, a new session will be created, and the session attributes copied to it (if migrateSessionAttributes is set). If the client's requested session Id is invalid, nothing will be done, since there is no need to change the session Id if it doesn't match the current session.

If there is no session, no action is taken unless the alwaysCreateSession property is set, in which case a session will be created if one doesn't already exist.

Specified by:

onAuthentication in interface SessionAuthenticationStrategy

onSessionChange

protected void onSessionChange(java.lang.String originalSessionId,
                               javax.servlet.http.HttpSession newSession,
                               Authentication auth)

Called when the session has been changed and the old attributes have been migrated to the new session. Only called if a session existed to start with. Allows subclasses to plug in additional behaviour. *

The default implementation of this method publishes a SessionFixationProtectionEvent to notify the application that the session ID has changed. If you override this method and still wish these events to be published, you should call super.onSessionChange() within your overriding method.

Parameters:

originalSessionId - the original session identifier

newSession - the newly created session

auth - the token for the newly authenticated principal

setApplicationEventPublisher

public void setApplicationEventPublisher(org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher applicationEventPublisher)

Sets the ApplicationEventPublisher to use for submitting SessionFixationProtectionEvent. The default is to not submit the SessionFixationProtectionEvent.

Specified by:

setApplicationEventPublisher in interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisherAware

Parameters:

applicationEventPublisher - the ApplicationEventPublisher. Cannot be null.

setAlwaysCreateSession

public void setAlwaysCreateSession(boolean alwaysCreateSession)