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AppSec Cheat Sheet: Session Management

ID: 12ec7960-8703-574c-926a-8fa32a1b8672

STIX ID: report--12ec7960-8703-574c-926a-8fa32a1b8672

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Date Published: 2025-05-22

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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### Executive Summary: This document is a practical session-management testing cheat sheet focused on cookie-based sessions, providing step-by-step test procedures (identify session tokens, uniqueness, randomness/statistical analysis, character/bit modification, idle/absolute timeouts, logout/invalidation, fixation, session puzzling, token disclosure, cookie security attributes, and token-exchange considerations) and tool recommendations (e.g., Burp Suite) to help penetration testers assess and remediate session-related security weaknesses.

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