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title: Limit UI active session life span
description: The glide.ui.active.session.life\_span property enforces max lifespan on active authenticated HTTP sessions irrespective of inactive timeout.
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product: Instance Security Hardening Settings
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# Limit UI active session life span

The **glide.ui.active.session.life\_span** property enforces max lifespan on active authenticated HTTP sessions irrespective of inactive timeout.

The **glide.ui.active.session.life\_span** system property enforces a maximum lifespan on active HTTP sessions irrespective of inactive timeout. The configured value is in minutes and the value of `0` will disable timing out the active sessions. This particular property is limited to UI session timeout.

Set the **glide.ui.active.session.life\_span** to a value between 1 and 720. This value represents the time in minutes that HTTP sessions can remain active.

**Note:** The **glide.ui.active.session.life\_span** is limited to UI session timeout.

## More information

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Attribute

</th><th>

Description

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Configuration name

</td><td>

**glide.ui.active.session.life\_span**

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

Configuration type

</td><td>

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

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

Data type

</td><td>

integer

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

Recommended value

</td><td>

1-720

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

Default value

</td><td>

&lt;none&gt;

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

Fallback value

</td><td>

0

</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)

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

Security risk

</td><td>

-   Severity score: 4.2
-   CVSS score: Medium
-   Security risk details: A larger maximum lifespan could allow an attacker to remain in a stolen session longer, increasing the possibility of a security incident.

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

Dependencies and prerequisites

</td><td>

None

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

Functional impact

</td><td>

Enforces max life-span on active authenticated HTTP sessions irrespective of inactive timeout. The configured value is in minutes. A value of zero will disable timing out the active sessions. The max life-span should be more than inactive timeout **glide.ui.session\_timeout** \(default 30 minutes\).

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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)