Unverified Commit 29bba731 authored by mvdbeek's avatar mvdbeek
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Drop exception catching when querying db for session 

Should fix users getting logged out if a OperationError occurs and they get a
new session because of the too-wide exception handling.
parent b6629d7f

lib/galaxy/security/idencoding.py

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@@ -99,8 +99,13 @@ class IdEncodingHelper: 


    def decode_guid(self, session_key):

        # Session keys are strings

        decoded_session_key = codecs.decode(session_key, 'hex')

        return unicodify(self.id_cipher.decrypt(decoded_session_key)).lstrip('!')

        try:

            decoded_session_key = codecs.decode(session_key, "hex")

            return unicodify(self.id_cipher.decrypt(decoded_session_key)).lstrip("!")

        except TypeError:

            raise galaxy.exceptions.MalformedId(f"Malformed guid '{session_key}' specified, unable to decode.")

        except ValueError:

            raise galaxy.exceptions.MalformedId(f"Wrong guid '{session_key}' specified, unable to decode.")



    def get_new_guid(self):

        # Generate a unique, high entropy 128 bit random number

lib/galaxy/webapps/base/webapp.py

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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from galaxy import util 
from galaxy.exceptions import (

    AuthenticationFailed,

    ConfigurationError,

    MalformedId,

    MessageException,

)

from galaxy.managers import context
@@ -485,10 +486,21 @@ class GalaxyWebTransaction(base.DefaultWebTransaction, context.ProvidesHistoryCo 
            # Decode the cookie value to get the session_key

            try:

                session_key = self.security.decode_guid(secure_id)

            except MalformedId:

                # Invalid session key, we're going to create a new one.

                # IIRC we did this when we switched to python 3 and clients

                # were sending sessioncookies that started with a stringified

                # bytestring, e.g 'b"0123456789abcdef"'. Maybe we need to drop

                # this exception catching, but then it'd be tricky to invalidate

                # a faulty session key

                log.debug("Received invalid session key '{secure_id}', setting a new session key")

                session_key = None



            if session_key:

                # We do NOT catch exceptions here, if the database is down the request should fail,

                # and we should not generate a new session.

                galaxy_session = self.session_manager.get_session_from_session_key(session_key=session_key)

            except Exception:

                # We'll end up creating a new galaxy_session

            if not galaxy_session:

                session_key = None

        # If remote user is in use it can invalidate the session and in some

        # cases won't have a cookie set above, so we need to check some things