That seems like a pretty big hole then especially if IDs are used as foreign keys... ownership doesn't mean anything. I could write an inflammatory comment on a website, change the owner to someone else (via the edit form) and then suddenly that other user is banned...
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 2:03:53 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > Does "db.person.id.writable = False" only apply to SQLFORMs? > > yes. > > On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 18:31:54 UTC-5, Henry Nguyen wrote: >> >> Our product is using the @request.restful() decorator to specify REST >> endpoints for our resources. During testing, I noticed that I can specify a >> PUT request var of "id=x" where x is some new id and the id of that row >> will change to x. This is even WITH "db.table.id.writable = False." >> >> The PUT method is defined as follows: >> >> def PUT(table_name, record_id, **vars): >> return db(db[table_name]._id==record_id).validate_and_update(** >> vars) >> >> So, for example, on a db with "db.person.id.writable = False", a request >> to "http://127.0.0.1:8000/appname/default/api/person/1?id=100"; will >> modify the person row with id 1 to be id 100. >> >> This seems like a relatively major problem... if a user were to be clever >> enough to play around with our UI and figure out the REST calls being made, >> he/she could potentially mess with all the ids and relationships of the >> resources, at least for that particular account (and any other resources >> we've exposed). >> >> Am I missing something? Does "db.person.id.writable = False" only apply >> to SQLFORMs? Is there some other way to prevent modification of the id >> field? >> >> Thanks ahead of time for any help. >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
