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Konstantin,

On 9/28/12 10:27 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2012/9/28 Joan Morales <joan....@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a security issue (hijack session) with JSESSIONID cookie,
>> 
>> here is the problem:
>> 
>> I am using an architecture with an Apache2 server in front of
>> Tomcat,  I have configured the SSL in both sides
>> Apache(ssl_module) and Tomcat(Conectors JSSE),
>> 
>> 1)  I tried using a connectio via AJP protocol to connect between
>> Apache2 and Tomcat using the following configuration on the
>> server.xml:
>> 
>> APACHE(httpd) via HTTP/HTTPS <VirtualHost *:80> ProxyPass /
>> http://localhost:8080/ <http://educaixahost:8080/> 
>> ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
>> <http://educaixahost:8080/> </VirtualHost>
>> 
>> via AJP <VirtualHost *:80> ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/
>> <http://educaixahost:8080/> ProxyPassReverse /
>> ajp://localhost:8009/ <http://educaixahost:8080/> </VirtualHost>
>> 
>> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerAdmin ad...@mail.com ServerName
>> localhost:443 SSLProxyEngine on SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile
>> "c:/usr/SSL/name.crt" SSLCertificateKeyFile
>> "c:/usr/SSL/name.key" ProxyPass / https://localhost:8443/ 
>> ProxyPassReverse / https://localhost:8443/ </VirtualHost>
>> 
>> Tomcat (server.xml)
>> 
>> <Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" connectionTimeout="20000"
>> port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"
>> secure="true"/> <Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" port="8009"
>> protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" scheme="https"
>> secure="true"/>
>> 
>> Results for this solution: I still can get the JSESSIONID cookie
>> 
>> 2)  I tried using the HTTP/S protocol to connect between Apache2
>> and tomcat  using the following configurationl:
>> 
>> Apache: Same configuration
>> 
>> Tomcat (server.xml):
>> 
>> <Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" connectionTimeout="20000"
>> port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/>
>> 
>> <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" 
>> maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true" 
>> keystoreFile="path/name.keystore" keystorePass="password" 
>> clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />
>> 
>> I also added this on the web.xml:
>> 
>> <session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> 
>> <tracking-mode>SSL</tracking-mode> </session-config>
>> 
>> Results for this solution:
>> 
>> The JSESSIONID cookie disappears OK Everything works OK if I
>> access directly to the tomcat and bypass the apache,
>> (localhost:8443), I can login into the web page and keep the 
>> seesion in every link inside the app
>> 
>> but, when try to access trought the Apache in https in port 443 ,
>> ( https://localhost:443 <https://localhost/>), I can login the
>> first time but when I try to access somewhere else in the app I
>> lose the user session and the app log me out, I checked over the
>> logs and there are no error neither in apache nor tomcat
>> 
>> So, Is this solution implementable under this architecture? Am I
>> missing some configurations?
>> 
> 
> So you are trying to do
> 
> Browser -> (HTTPS) -> Apache HTTPD -> (HTTPS) -> Tomcat
> 
> In this case there are 2 different HTTPS connections.
> 
> <session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> 
> <tracking-mode>SSL</tracking-mode> </session-config>
> 
> The above "SSL" session tracking configuration wouldn't work,
> because from Tomcat's point of view the only connection that it
> sees is the one from Apache HTTPD. It knows "sslSession" identifier
> of this connection only.
> 
> To use "SSL" session tracking you should connect to Tomcat
> directly.

What about using Browser -> (HTTPS) -> httpd -> (AJP) - Tomcat?

Since httpd forwards all the SSL information, can Tomcat sniff that
and successfully use SSL-based session identification?

- -chris
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