Rotate HTTP session identifiers

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title: Rotate HTTP session identifiers
description: Use the glide.ui.rotate\_sessions property to enable rotation of the HTTP session identifiers to reduce security vulnerabilities.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Instance Security Hardening Settings
classification: instance-security-hardening-settings
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Session management, Hardening settings, Platform Security]
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# Rotate HTTP session identifiers

Use the **glide.ui.rotate\_sessions** property to enable rotation of the HTTP session identifiers to reduce security vulnerabilities.

If the **glide.ui.rotate\_sessions** system property is not set to the recommended value of **true**, then identifying information on a session is kept and not rotated between applications.

Ensure that the property **glide.ui.rotate\_sessions** is set to **true**.

## More information

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Attribute

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Description

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Configuration name

</td><td>

**glide.ui.rotate\_sessions**

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Configuration type

</td><td>

System Properties \(/sys\_properties\_list.do\)

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Data type

</td><td>

Boolean

</td></tr><tr><td>

Recommended value

</td><td>

true

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Default value

</td><td>

true

</td></tr><tr><td>

Fallback value

</td><td>

true

</td></tr><tr><td>

Category

</td><td>

[Session management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/instance-security-hardening-settings/sc-session-management.md)

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Security risk

</td><td>

-   Severity score: 8.8
-   CVSS rating: High
-   Security risk details:

Not setting **glide.ui.rotate\_sessions** system property to the recommended value of **true** increases the risk of session hijacking, as attackers could reuse session identifiers to gain unauthorized access.


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Functional impact

</td><td>

This remediation modified the SessionID when user navigates from unauthenticated page to authenticated pages. -   If you are using a proxy or hardcoding the SessionID when a user first logs in, or for any purpose, then there can be a potential functionality impact.
-   If you are using the SAML 2.0 plugin for Single Sign-on authentication, it might interfere with the session information sharing between the instance and the Identity Provider. In such case, you can set this property to false.

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Dependencies and prerequisites

</td><td>

None

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Session management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/instance-security-hardening-settings/sc-session-management.md)