#1176 new defect

webapi should avoid using plaintext temporary file for uploads — at Version 1

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: soon
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.8β
Keywords: confidentiality Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by davidsarah)

In ticket:990#comment:17, davidsarah wrote:

warner wrote:

The upload-side webapi server will still put large (>100kB) plaintext files on disk (in an anonymous tempfile),

Perhaps it should be using EncryptedTemporaryFile?

On closer examination I think the relevant code is in twisted.web.http, so that might be easier said than done.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed at 2010-08-14T20:57:58Z by davidsarah

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