From b1cd19df2fb9ae47ecc90a68e789607f7f0a3d7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Moor <tom.moor@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 10:31:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error handling on cookie parsing, closes #4246

---
 server/utils/authentication.ts | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/utils/authentication.ts b/server/utils/authentication.ts
index ca0560c27..a2efde3a8 100644
--- a/server/utils/authentication.ts
+++ b/server/utils/authentication.ts
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ import { User, Event, Team, Collection, View } from "@server/models";
  * @returns The session details
  */
 export function getSessionsInCookie(ctx: Context) {
-  return JSON.parse(
-    decodeURIComponent(ctx.cookies.get("sessions") || "") || "{}"
-  );
+  try {
+    const sessionCookie = ctx.cookies.get("sessions") || "";
+    const decodedSessionCookie = decodeURIComponent(sessionCookie);
+    return decodedSessionCookie ? JSON.parse(decodedSessionCookie) : {};
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {};
+  }
 }
 
 export async function signIn(