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ASVS V3 Session Management
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V3: Session Management Verification Requirements
Control Objective
One of the core components of any web-based application is the mechanism by which it controls and maintains the state for a user interacting with it. This is referred to this as Session Management and is defined as the set of all controls governing state-full interaction between a user and the web-based application.
Ensure that a verified application satisfies the following high level session management requirements:
- Sessions are unique to each individual and cannot be guessed or shared
- Sessions are invalidated when no longer required and timed out during periods of inactivity.
Security Verification Requirements
| # | Description | L1 | L2 | L3 | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | Verify that sessions are invalidated when the user logs out. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 |
| 3.3 | Verify that sessions timeout after a specified period of inactivity. | ✓ | 1.0 | ||
| 3.4 | Verify that sessions timeout after an administratively-configurable maximum time period regardless of activity (an absolute timeout). | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 | |
| 3.5 | Verify that all pages that require authentication have easy and visible access to logout functionality. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 |
| 3.6 | Test that the session ID is never disclosed in URLs, error messages, or logs. This includes verifying that the application does not support URL rewriting of session cookies. | ✓ | 1.0 | ||
| 3.7 | Verify that all successful authentication and re-authentication generates a new session and session id. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 |
| 3.10 | Verify that only session ids generated by the application framework are recognised as active by the application. | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 | |
| 3.11 | Test session IDs against criteria such as their randomness, uniqueness, resistance to statistical and cryptographic analysis and information leakage. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 |
| 3.12 | Verify that session IDs stored in cookies are scoped using the 'path' attribute; and have the 'HttpOnly' and 'Secure' cookie flags enabled. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3.0 |
| 3.17 | Verify that the application tracks all active sessions. And allows users to terminate sessions selectively or globally from their account. | ✓ | ✓ | 3.0 | |
| 3.18 | Verify for high value applications that the user is prompted with the option to terminate all other active sessions after a successful change password process. | ✓ | 3.1 | ||
| 3.1 | TBA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.0 |
References
For more information, see also:
- [OWASP Testing Guide 4.0: Session Management Testing](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Session_Management)
- [OWASP Session Management Cheat Sheet](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Management_Cheat_Sheet)
