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ATG - how to prevent Cross-Site attacks using _dynSessConf parameter


Cross-site scripting attacks take advantage of a vulnerability that enables a malicious site to use your browser to submit form requests to another site.

In order to protect forms from cross-site attacks in ATG, you can enable form submissions to automatically supply the request parameter _dynSessConf, which identifies the current session through a randomly generated long number. On submission of a form (using dsp:form tag) or activation of a property setting (using dsp:a tag), the request-handling pipeline ( DAFDropletEventServlet ) validates _dynSessConf  against its session confirmation identifier. If it detects a mismatch or missing number, it can block form processing and return an error.

To disable this functionality, we could give the following properties (@ /atg/dynamo/Configuration to disable it globally)
enforceSessionConfirmation = false -->  specifies whether the request-handling pipeline requires session confirmation in order to process the request; the default value is true.
warnOnSessionConfirmationFailure = false --> specifies whether to issue a warning on a confirmation number mismatch; the default value is true.

You can control session confirmation for individual requests by setting the attribute requiresSessionConfirmation to true or false on the applicable dsp:form or dsp:a tag. If this attribute is set to false, the _dynSessConf parameter is not included in the HTTP request and the request-handling pipeline skips validation of this request’s session confirmation number.
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  1. Anonymous15 May 2014 at 00:53

    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24152_01/Platform.10-1/ATGBusCommRefGuide/html/s1402sessionexpirationfromlackofusera01.html

    Can we handle 409 conflict using CheckSessionExpiration?
    I tried this. But before reaching request to pipeline,web.xml redirect to url mention there.

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