The application must provide audit record generation capability for the destruction of session IDs.

From Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000169

SV-83987r1_rule The application must provide audit record generation capability for the destruction of session IDs.

Vulnerability discussion

Applications should destroy session IDs at the end of a user session in order to terminate user access to the application session and to reduce the possibility of an unauthorized attacker high jacking the session and impersonating the user. It is important to log when session IDs are destroyed for forensic purposes.Web based applications will often utilize an application server that creates, manages and logs session IDs. It is acceptable for the application to delegate this requirement to the application server.

Check content

Access the management interface for the application or configuration file and evaluate the log/audit management settings. Determine if the setting that enables session ID destruction event auditing is activated. Terminate a user session within the application and review the logs to ensure the session destruction event was recorded. If the application is not configured to log session ID destruction events, or if the application has no means to enable auditing of session ID destruction events, this is a finding. If a web-based application delegates session ID destruction to an application server, this is not a finding. If the application generates audit logs by default when session IDs are destroyed, and that behavior cannot be disabled, this is not a finding.

Fix text

Enable session ID destruction event auditing.

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