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feat(security): Add user confirmation/reauth for sensitive changes
Auditors can raise Reauth(reason) exception to require the user to
enter a token (e.g. account password) to verify the user is performing
the change.
Naming is subject to change.
actions.py: New ReauthAction class handler and verifyPassword() method
for overriding if needed.
client.py: Handle Reauth exception by calling Client:reauth() method.
Default client:reauth method. Add 'reauth' action declaration.
exceptions.py: Define and document Reauth exception as a subclass of
RoundupCGIException.
templating.py: Define method utils.embed_form_fields().
The original form making a change to the database has a lot of form
fields. These need to be resubmitted to Roundup as part of the form
submission that verifies the user's password.
This method turns all non file form fields into type=hidden inputs.
It escapes the names and values to prevent XSS.
For file form fields, it base64 encodes the contents and puts them
in hidden pre blocks. The pre blocks have data attributes for the
filename, filetype and the original field name. (Note the original
field name is not used.)
This stops the file content data (maybe binary e.g. jpegs) from
breaking the html page. The reauth template runs JavaScript that
turns the encoded data inside the pre tags back into a file. Then
it adds a multiple file input control to the page and attaches all
the files to it. This file input is submitted with the rest of the
fields.
_generic.reauth.html (multiple tracker templates): Generates a form
with id=reauth_form to:
display any message from the Reauth exception to the user (e.g. why
user is asked to auth).
get the user's password
submit the form
embed all the form data that triggered the reauth
recreate any file data that was submitted as part of the form and
generate a new file input to push the data to the back end
It has the JavaScript routine (as an IIFE) that regenerates a file
input without user intervention.
All the TAL based tracker templates use the same form. There is also
one for the jinja2 template. The JavaScript for both is the same.
reference.txt: document embed_form_fields utility method.
upgrading.txt: initial upgrading docs.
TODO:
Finalize naming. I am leaning toward ConfirmID rather than Reauth.
Still looking for a standard name for this workflow.
Externalize the javascript in _generic.reauth.html to a seperate file
and use utils.readfile() to embed it or change the script to load it
from a @@file url.
Clean up upgrading.txt with just steps to implement and less feature
detail/internals.
Document internals/troubleshooting in reference.txt.
Add tests using live server.
| author | John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org> |
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| date | Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:01:12 -0400 |
| parents | dd13b3a0ea8d |
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# mod_python interface for Roundup Issue Tracker # # This module is free software, you may redistribute it # and/or modify under the same terms as Python. # # This module provides Roundup Web User Interface # using mod_python Apache module. Initially written # with python 2.3.3, mod_python 3.1.3, roundup 0.7.0. # # This module operates with only one tracker # and must be placed in the tracker directory. # # mod_python is deprecated and not well tested with release 2.0 of # roundup. mod_wsgi is the preferred interface. It may not work # with python3. # The patch from https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550821 # is included. Look for this url below. It is not tested, but # we assume it's safe and syntax it seems ok. import os import threading from mod_python import apache import roundup.instance from roundup.anypy.cgi_ import cgi from roundup.cgi import TranslationService class Headers(dict): """HTTP headers wrapper""" def __init__(self, headers): """Initialize with `apache.table`""" super(Headers, self).__init__(headers) self.getheader = self.get class Request(object): """`apache.Request` object wrapper providing roundup client interface""" def __init__(self, request): """Initialize with `apache.Request` object""" self._req = request # .headers.getheader() self.headers = Headers(request.headers_in) # .wfile.write() self.wfile = self._req def start_response(self, headers, response): self.send_response(response) for key, value in headers: self.send_header(key, value) self.end_headers() def send_response(self, response_code): """Set HTTP response code""" self._req.status = response_code def send_header(self, name, value): """Set output header""" # value may be an instance of roundup.cgi.exceptions.HTTPException value = str(value) # XXX default content_type is "text/plain", # and ain't overrided by "Content-Type" header if name == "Content-Type": self._req.content_type = value else: self._req.headers_out.add(name, value) def end_headers(self): """NOOP. There aint no such thing as 'end_headers' in mod_python""" pass def sendfile(self, filename, offset=0, length=-1): """Send 'filename' to the user.""" return self._req.sendfile(filename, offset, length) __tracker_cache = {} """A cache of optimized tracker instances. The keys are strings giving the directories containing the trackers. The values are tracker instances.""" __tracker_cache_lock = threading.Lock() """A lock used to guard access to the cache.""" def handler(req): """HTTP request handler""" _options = req.get_options() _home = _options.get("TrackerHome") _lang = _options.get("TrackerLanguage") _timing = _options.get("TrackerTiming", "no") if _timing.lower() in ("no", "false"): _timing = "" _debug = _options.get("TrackerDebug", "no") _debug = _debug.lower() not in ("no", "false") # We do not need to take a lock here (the fast path) because reads # from dictionaries are atomic. if not _debug and _home in __tracker_cache: _tracker = __tracker_cache[_home] else: if not (_home and os.path.isdir(_home)): apache.log_error( "PythonOption TrackerHome missing or invalid for %(uri)s" % {'uri': req.uri}) return apache.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR if _debug: _tracker = roundup.instance.open(_home, optimize=0) else: __tracker_cache_lock.acquire() try: # The tracker may have been added while we were acquiring # the lock. if _home in __tracker_cache: _tracker = __tracker_cache[_home] else: _tracker = roundup.instance.open(_home, optimize=1) __tracker_cache[_home] = _tracker finally: __tracker_cache_lock.release() # create environment # Note: cookies are read from HTTP variables, so we need all HTTP vars # https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550821 # Release 3.4 of mod_python uses add_cgi_vars() and depricates # add_common_vars. So try to use the add_cgi_vars and if it fails # with AttributeError because we are running an older mod_apache without # that function, fallback to add_common_vars. try: req.add_cgi_vars() except AttributeError: req.add_common_vars() _env = dict(req.subprocess_env) # XXX classname must be the first item in PATH_INFO. roundup.cgi does: # path = os.environ.get('PATH_INFO', '/').split('/') # os.environ['PATH_INFO'] = '/'.join(path[2:]) # we just remove the first character ('/') _env["PATH_INFO"] = req.path_info[1:] if _timing: _env["CGI_SHOW_TIMING"] = _timing _form = cgi.FieldStorage(req, environ=_env) _client = _tracker.Client( _tracker, Request(req), _env, _form, translator=TranslationService.get_translation(_lang, tracker_home=_home) ) _client.main() return apache.OK # vim: set et sts=4 sw=4 :
