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Regenerated session is re-saved even if not modified since save

Open pasieronen opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

PR #849 attempted to fix resaving an already-saved new session at the end of the request, but there's one corner case it missed. If session.regenerate() has been called before session.save(), then the request is still saved again at the end of the request.

This can actually lead to a race condition: if another request modifies the session after session.save() but before the end of the first request, then those modifications get overwritten when the first request ends. (And yes, this can happen in real world...)

How to reproduce: This code prints "saving" twice for one request (also verified by adding logging inside express-session)

const MemoryStore = require('express-session/session/memory')

const _set = MemoryStore.prototype.set
MemoryStore.prototype.set = function set() {
  console.log('saving')
  _set.apply(this, arguments)
}

const express = require('express')
const session = require('express-session')
const app = express()

app.use(session({
  secret: 'cat',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: false
}))

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  req.session.regenerate(() => {
    req.session.value = 'foo'
    req.session.save(() => {
      res.send('hello')
    })
  })
})

app.listen(3000)

pasieronen avatar Mar 14 '23 18:03 pasieronen

Outline of a possible fix:

  • In index.js wrapMethods, also wrap regenerate (same way as reload)
  • In the wrapped save method, set originalId = this.id (so that isSaved returns true and isModified false, unless more modifications happen after saving)

pasieronen avatar Mar 14 '23 18:03 pasieronen