Destroying IdP sessions with client-side session storage

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Oct 22 08:05:12 EDT 2019


On 10/21/19, 9:55 PM, "users on behalf of Wessel, Keith" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> We did a quick test on the Shibboleth IdP, and it doesn't seem to have this issue. If you export the IdP cookies before
> calling the IdP logout handler and destroying the IdP session, and you then import the backed up IdP cookie, you're
> still prompted to reauthenticate.

That depends on whether HTML storage is enabled, not to mention that the IdP enforces address restrictions. I consider it a security vulnerability in Jetty and Tomcat that they don't.
 
-- Scott




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