Session Fixation Protection

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Overview
Some platforms make it easy to protect against Session Fixation, while others make it a lot more difficult. In most cases, simply discarding any existing session is sufficient to force the framework to issue a new sessionid cookie, with a new value. Unfortunately, some platforms, notably Microsoft ASP, do not generate new values for sessionid cookies, but rather just associate the existing value with a new session. This guarantees that almost all ASP apps will be vulnerable to session fixation, unless they have taken specific measures to protect against it.

Anti-Fixation in ASP
Here is some sample code to illustrate an approach to preventing session fixation attacks in ASP. The idea is that, since ASP prohibits write access to the ASPSESSIONIDxxxxx cookie, and will not allow us to change it in any way, we have to use an additional cookie that we do have control over to detect any tampering. So, we set a cookie in the user's browser to a random value, and set a session variable to the same value. If the session variable and the cookie value ever don't match, then we have a potential fixation attack, and should invalidate the session, and force the user to log on again.

Example implementation
Here is a sample implementation:

AntiFixation.asp: <%   ' This routine is intended to provide a degree of protection ' against Session Fixation attacks in classic ASP ' Session fixation attacks are a problem in ASP, since ASP does not ' allow you any access to the ASPSESSIONIDxxx cookie. Even invalidating ' the session does not alter the value of this cookie, preventing ' implementation of best practice recommendations, such as   ' issuing new session cookies when the session is authenticated, or     ' invalidated. ' The basic premise of this routine is that we create a cookie that ' we CAN control, e.g. ASPFIXATION, and assign a random value to this ' cookie when the session is authenticated. On subsequent pages, we    ' check the value of this cookie against the same variable stored in    ' the user's session. If they do not match, access is denied. ' When the user logs out, the session should be invalidated, and so    ' by default, the cookie no longer matches the value in the session. Private Function RandomString(l) Dim value, i, r       Randomize For i = 0 To l           r = Int(Rnd * 62) If r<10 Then r = r + 48 ElseIf r<36 Then r = (r - 10) + 65 Else r = (r - 10 - 26) + 97 End If           value = value & Chr(r) Next RandomString = value End Function ' This routine should be called after the user has been authenticated. ' It is expected that the session has been invalidated prior to this call. Public Sub AntiFixationInit Dim value value = RandomString(10) Response.Cookies("ASPFIXATION") = value Session("ASPFIXATION") = value End Sub Public Sub AntiFixationVerify(LoginPage) Dim cookie_value, session_value cookie_value = Request.Cookies("ASPFIXATION") session_value = Session("ASPFIXATION") If cookie_value <> session_value Then Response.redirect(LoginPage) End If   End Sub %>

Include the following lines in your login page:

&lt;!--#include virtual="/AntiFixation.asp" -->

and, when your user is successfully authenticated:

AntiFixationInit

All other private pages (i.e. only accessible by an authenticated user) should include the following lines (preferably as the first couple of lines in the file):

&lt;!--#include virtual="/AntiFixation.asp" --> <% AntiFixationVerify("login.asp") %>

In this case, any requests that do not contain a valid ASPFIXATION cookie will be redirected to the page indicated, in this case "login.asp". Note that we do not automatically invalidate the session, since that would allow a denial of service attack against the legitimate user. If one were concerned about brute force attacks against the fixation cookie, one could either make the random value longer, and/or use a counter in the session to detect repeated attacks, and invalidate the session if a threshold is exceeded.