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V-206396

CAT II (Medium)

The web server must invalidate session identifiers upon hosted application user logout or other session termination.

Rule ID

SV-206396r1043179_rule

STIG

Web Server Security Requirements Guide

Version

V4R4

CCIs

CCI-001185

Discussion

Captured sessions can be reused in "replay" attacks. This requirement limits the ability of adversaries from capturing and continuing to employ previously valid session IDs. Session IDs are tokens generated by web applications to uniquely identify an application user's session. Unique session IDs help to reduce predictability of said identifiers. When a user logs out, or when any other session termination event occurs, the web server must terminate the user session to minimize the potential for an attacker to hijack that particular user session.

Check Content

Review the web server documentation and deployed configuration to verify that the web server is configured to invalidate session identifiers when a session is terminated.

If the web server does not invalidate session identifiers when a session is terminated, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the web server to invalidate session identifiers when a session is terminated.