Most users usually (only?) change their password when they suspect it has been compromised. Therefore, when a password is changed, it is sensible to destroy all existing open sessions for that user account except the one that changed the password.

Patch attached.

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user-pass-patch.txt820 bytesbjaspan

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Reviewed & tested by the community

thats perfectly sensible. rtbc.

kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented

+1, as I said on the devel mailing list.

dries’s picture

dries commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Good catch. Committed to CVS HEAD. Thanks!

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented
Version: 6.x-dev » 5.x-dev
Status: Fixed » Reviewed & tested by the community

This should be in 5 too, no?

bjaspan’s picture

bjaspan commented

I'd say so. I do not think it is worthy of a security advisory but it is a security improvement.

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drumm
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commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed to 5.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)