Re: zope.pluggableauth and "camefrom" information in login form not an absolute URL

Adam GROSZER <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I'm not sure whether you open up a security hole there.
Imagine that someone does a
http://yoursite.com/@@loginform.html?camefrom=http://mysite.com
We ended up with storing the camefrom URL in a session variable.

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:42:33 +0100 you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The SessionCredentialsPlugin will redirect to a login form whenever a
> user needs to be authenticated. The URL to this login form will have a
> "camefrom" query string, where the "camefrom" is the path-information to
> the originally requested view.
>
> When the credentials provided by the user are correct, the login form
> will use the camefrom information to redirect back to that original view.
>
> Ideally (a.k.a. according to the HTTP spec.), the camefrom should be an
> absolute URL, not just a path like the SessionCredentialsPlugin now does.
>
> I'd like to fix and release zope.pluggableauth with the following patch
> applied - unless of course there's compelling reasons not to do this:
>
> --- trunk/src/zope/pluggableauth/plugins/session.py	2011-02-07
> 10:33:25.643791415 +0100
> +++
> branches/janjaapdriessen-camefrom-fix/src/zope/pluggableauth/plugins/session.py
> 2011-02-07 10:40:12.301790203 +0100
> @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
>            # Better to add the query string, if present
>            query = request.get('QUERY_STRING')
>
> -        camefrom = '/'.join([request.getURL(path_only=True)] + stack)
> +        camefrom = '/'.join([request.getURL()] + stack)
>            if query:
>                camefrom = camefrom + '?' + query
>            url = '%s/@@%s?%s' % (absoluteURL(site, request),
>
>
> regards, jw
>
> _______________________________________________
> Zope-Dev maillist  -  [email protected]
> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev
> **  No cross posts or HTML encoding!  **
> (Related lists -
>   https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce
>   https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
>

-- 
Best regards,
  Adam GROSZER
--
Quote of the day:
Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
_______________________________________________
Zope-Dev maillist  -  [email protected]
https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev
**  No cross posts or HTML encoding!  **
(Related lists - 
 https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce
 https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.