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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-20189

Logout Button / Option Missing for some LDAP user accounts

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Medium
    • 3.4
    • 3.1.2
    • None

    Description

      Instance Details / Description:
      The logout option to kill sessions is not present for some user accounts (i,e, the zzsvat01-05 test accounts). It is believed that this is caused by LDAP user accounts that don't have a first and / or last name present. For these specific rare instances (i.e. probably just with test accounts), not having a logout button / option does not allow the user to immediately kill his or her session.

      Impact:

      This could lengthen the window of opportunity for a session based attack. (i.e. Session
      Hijacking / Cloning) Also, the fact that communications between the client and server for this application is not encrypted could allow an attacker to intercept a user's session identifier, and jump into the victim user's logged in session.

      This could lengthen the window of opportunity for a session based attack. (i.e. Session Hijacking / Cloning) Also, the fact that communications between the client and server for this application is not encrypted could allow an attacker to intercept a user's session identifier, and jump into the victim user's logged in session.

      Root Cause: Improper Design / Configuration

      Recommendations: Work with the vendor to pinpoint why this happens to these types of accounts, and obtain a fix for the Confluence application. (It is doubtful that all usernames in LDAP will always have both first and last names.

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            akdominguez Katrina Walser (Inactive)
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