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  1. XWiki Platform
  2. XWIKI-4109

Guest users are sometimes logged in with another user account

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      A configuration problem on one of our servers (the xwiki.org farm) causes the same session ID to be reused for new clients, while the session is not invalidated. This causes a new client to take over an existing session, which means that it now has a valid Principal object in the session.

      Since XWIKI-3013, this session Principal is enough to consider the user authenticated. XWIKI-3342 improves the security by checking the cookies also, and invalidating the login if the user stored in the cookies does not match the session user. However, XWIKI-3342 is incomplete, since it fails to clear the session if no authentication cookies were present to start with.

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            sdumitriu Sergiu Dumitriu
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