You're right, I guess you should store the ID in session state... but wait, this is ReST... part of the url then, and not a parameter. and PUT should not take the record_id.
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 3:01:20 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > That is not a hole. > > This code: > > > def PUT(table_name, record_id, **vars): > return db(db[table_name]._id==record_id).validate_and_update(** > vars) > > means: > > "allow anybody to put any content in any record of any table". If that is > not what you want you should write different code. > > On Friday, 11 April 2014 12:36:43 UTC-5, Derek wrote: >> >> 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.