CAPEC Definitions / CAPEC-593
CAPEC-593: Session Hijacking
This type of attack involves an adversary that exploits weaknesses in an application's use of sessions in performing authentication. The adversary is able to steal or manipulate an active session and use it to gain unathorized access to the application.
Extended Description
No Extended Description.
Mitigations
Properly encrypt and sign identity tokens in transit, and use industry standard session key generation mechanisms that utilize high amount of entropy to generate the session key. Many standard web and application servers will perform this task on your behalf. Utilize a session timeout for all sessions. If the user does not explicitly logout, terminate their session after this period of inactivity. If the user logs back in then a new session key should be generated.
Relationships with other CAPECs
CAPEC-21: Exploitation of Trusted Identifiers
Prerequisites
An application that leverages sessions to perform authentication.
Related Weaknesses
CWE-287: Improper Authentication
