porchlight/tests/test_auth_routes/test_login_session.py
Johan Lundberg 407db57279
fix(security): reset session on login to prevent fixation
Both password and WebAuthn login wrote the authenticated identity onto the
existing pre-auth session, so a fixed/planted session could be elevated to an
authenticated one. Add _establish_authenticated_session() which clears the
session (preserving only a pending OIDC authorization request) before setting
the identity, used by both login paths.

Tests that reused a pre-login CSRF token now re-fetch it after login, matching
real client behavior.

Refs: porchlight-vxr

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 14:23:08 +02:00

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from datetime import UTC, datetime
from httpx import AsyncClient
from porchlight.authn.password import PasswordHasher, PasswordService
from porchlight.models import PasswordCredential, User
from tests.conftest import get_csrf_token
async def _create_active_user(client: AsyncClient) -> None:
app = client._transport.app # type: ignore[union-attr]
user = User(
userid="login-01",
username="loginuser",
created_at=datetime.now(UTC),
updated_at=datetime.now(UTC),
)
await app.state.user_repo.create(user)
svc = PasswordService(hasher=PasswordHasher(time_cost=1, memory_cost=8192))
await app.state.credential_repo.create_password(
PasswordCredential(user_id=user.userid, password_hash=svc.hash("password123!Secure"))
)
async def test_login_resets_session_to_prevent_fixation(client: AsyncClient) -> None:
"""Logging in must reset the pre-auth session so an attacker-fixed session
cannot become authenticated. We observe this via the CSRF token (stored in
the session) changing across login."""
await _create_active_user(client)
pre_login_token = await get_csrf_token(client)
res = await client.post(
"/login/password",
data={"username": "loginuser", "password": "password123!Secure"},
headers={"HX-Request": "true", "X-CSRF-Token": pre_login_token},
)
assert res.status_code == 200
assert res.headers.get("HX-Redirect") # logged in
post_login_token = await get_csrf_token(client)
assert post_login_token != pre_login_token