Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#1351 closed defect

CreateSession can generate invalid session ids — at Initial Version

Reported by: jng Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: 2.4
Component: Map Agent Version: 2.2.0
Severity: trivial Keywords:
Cc: External ID:

Description

The recent security patches for the AJAX viewer imposed the following pattern restriction on MapGuide session ids:

00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_aa_00000000000000000000

The "aa" component is the locale when the CREATESESSION mapagent call is made. However if a custom LOCALE parameter is passed which is not 2 characters (eg. en-US), then that is actually incorporated into the generated session id itself, making it unusable when it is passed to the AJAX viewer.

Attached is a modified mapagent form for the CREATESESSION operation.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Load the modified form
  2. Specify a LOCALE greater than 2 characters (eg. en-US)
  3. Invoke the CREATESESSION operation
  4. Open any WebLayout using this generated session id
  5. You will get a http authentication prompt because the generated id fails the pattern check.

The LOCALE parameter should either be rejected or validated to ensure it is 2 characters wide.

Change History (1)

by jng, 15 years ago

Attachment: createsessionform.html​ added

Modified CREATESESSION form

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