Bug ID 816233: Session and authentication cookies should use larger character set

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.0.5, 15.0.1.4, 14.1.2.7

Opened: Aug 20, 2019

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The session and authentication cookies are created using a limited character set.

Impact

Cookies are created with a less broad character set than they could be.

Conditions

Creating session and authentication cookies.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

JSESSIONIDs and AuthCookies are created using a wider character set.

Behavior Change

This release changes the format of the BIGIPAuthCookie and JSESSIONID cookies to use a larger alphabet during encoding (case sensitive alphanumeric).

Guides & references

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