[cas-dev] renew flag can be bypassed

Scott Battaglia scott.battaglia at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 15:12:15 EST 2007


If you the client application requests renew=true in the URL and the user
removes it the authentication itself will continue.  However, when the
client goes to validate a ticket it should  be specifying renew=true to the
validator which would cause the validation of the ticket to fail.

-Scott

On 3/1/07, March, Andres <amarch at soe.sony.com> wrote:
>
>  We have started to use the renew flag for the first time.  I have found
> that just by changing the login url (to remove renew=true) that the
> forwarding app redirects to, you can bypass renewal of credentials.
> Shouldn't CAS demand renewal on subsequent logins if renew was sent once and
> no re-authentication has occurred?  Further, shouldn't the CAS client
> require some indication that the credentials were renewed when the ticket
> was issued and it was not simply reusing an existing auth?
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> I was thinking of placing a filter on CAS that deletes the CAS TGC when
> renew is passed.  This solves my first issue but not the second.
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> Andres March
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