CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration

What is Insufficient Session Expiration?

• Overview: Insufficient Session Expiration is a vulnerability that occurs when a web application allows old session credentials or session IDs to be reused, potentially letting an attacker hijack a session.

• Exploitation Methods:

• Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by obtaining valid session IDs through methods like stealing them from network traffic, logs, or browser histories.
• Common attack patterns include session fixation, where attackers set a user's session ID, and session hijacking, where attackers take over an active session.

• Security Impact:

• Direct consequences include unauthorized access to user accounts, leading to data theft or modification.
• Potential cascading effects include privilege escalation and lateral movement within an application.
• Business impact may involve legal liabilities, loss of customer trust, and financial damage due to data breaches.

• Prevention Guidelines:

• Specific code-level fixes involve setting session expiration times to invalidate sessions after a period of inactivity or after a fixed duration.
• Security best practices include regenerating session IDs after login, logout, and privilege changes, and using secure, HTTP-only cookies.
• Recommended tools and frameworks include session management libraries that handle expiration automatically and security testing tools to identify session management flaws.

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Technical Details

Likelihood of Exploit: Not specified

Affected Languages: Not specified

Affected Technologies: Not specified