I'm developing an application in Java which seems to have a session hijacking vulnerability.
In order to prevent this, the recommendation is to change the JSESSION ID for a user after log in
My application is based on Struts 2.0 and Tomcat 7 and I have implemented a code to change the JSESSIONID
after the user logs in.
However i am facing the following problem while running the code.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: setAttribute: Session already invalidated
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.setAttribute(StandardSession.java:1289)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.setAttribute(StandardSession.java:1254)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade.setAttribute (StandardSessionFacade.java:130)
at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.SessionMap.put(SessionMap.java:181)
Here is the code that i wrote :
HttpSession httpSession = ServletActionContext.getRequest().getSession();
HashMap<String, Object> attributes = new HashMap<String, Object>();
Enumeration<String> enames = httpSession.getAttributeNames();
while ( enames.hasMoreElements() )
{
String name = enames.nextElement();
if ( !name.equals( "JSESSIONID" ) )
{
attributes.put( name, httpSession .getAttribute( name ) );
}
}
httpSession.invalidate();
httpSession = request.getSession(true);
for ( Map.Entry<String, Object> et : attributes.entrySet() )
{
userInfoMap.put( et.getKey(), et.getValue() );
}
getSession().put("userid",userId);//Setting value to session