RE: Web session tracking security prob. Vulnerable: IIS and ColdF usion (maybe others)

["Hicks, John" <JHicks () JUSTICE GC CA>]

I am not too familiar with Cold Fusion, however, if you run ASP (Active
Server Page) Applications on your IIS Server, the server issues a Session ID
to each new session.  This is how ASP maintains state across web pages.  I
assume it's the same concept for ColdFusion.

This is an Automatic process for ID generation that I rather random ... so
theoretically (as MS always likes to put it) yes, they could steal a Session
ID, but you would have to guess it first, and that would be akin to
attempting to hijack a TCP/IP session using a guessed TCP/IP sequence
number.

John Hicks

-----Original Message-----
From: Lincoln Yeoh [mailto:lyeoh () pop jaring my]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:35 AM
To: Jeff Jancula; vuln-dev () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Web session tracking security prob. Vulnerable: IIS and
ColdFusion (maybe others)


At 02:25 PM 29-08-2001 -0400, Jeff Jancula wrote:
> BACKGROUND:
>
> When a Internet browser user visits IIS or ColdFusion hosted web sites,
the web server issues browser commands similar to:
> (for IIS) Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONID=BBBBBBBBABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
> (for CF)  Set-Cookie: CFID=123
> (for CF)  Set-Cookie: CFTOKEN=4567890
>
> The browser stores and returns the "ASPSESSIONID" or "CFID/CFTOKEN" values
with each subsequent request to the web server. IIS and ColdFusion use
these values to identify and track each user.
>

What does CFID=123 mean to cold fusion? Is that the user/session ID?

Does that mean an attacker can just send CFID=123 and CFTOKEN=ANYTHING and
Cold Fusion will think it's the same user/session?

If it does then it's a very big problem. If it doesn't, then it may not be
a problem unless your application assumes that just having a session means
it's a valid user.

Cheerio,
Link.