Yes - the moral of the story is that you should use J2EE sessions if
you care about security (which has been the case since they were
introduced in CF 6).

On 9/26/07, Mike Chabot wrote:
> I did further testing and verified that using UUIDs for the cftokens
> does not address the security vulnerability. If you specify that you
> want to use UUIDs, CF Server doesn't seem to check that the token is a
> valid UUID.
>
> On the other hand, using jsessions behaves as expected. If you clear
> out the jsessionid, you get assigned a new one on the next page hit.
>
> -Mike Chabot

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