Details
Cookies are used to exchange data between the web server and the client. Cookies, such as a session cookie, may contain session information and user credentials used to maintain a persistent connection between the user and the hosted application since HTTP/HTTPS is a stateless protocol.
When the cookie parameters are not set properly (i.e., domain and path parameters), cookies can be shared within hosted applications residing on the same web server or to applications hosted on different web servers residing on the same domain.
Solution
Edit the ‘mod_session.conf’ file and find the ‘SessionCookieName’ directive.
Set the ‘SessionCookieName’ to ‘session path=/; HttpOnly; Secure; ‘
Example:
SessionCookieName session path=/; HttpOnly; Secure;
Restart Apache: apachectl restart
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.
References
- 800-53|SC-23(3)
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-001664
- Rule-ID|SV-214251r612240_rule
- STIG-ID|AS24-U1-000470
- STIG-Legacy|SV-102767
- STIG-Legacy|V-92679
- Vuln-ID|V-214251