How will you handle Yahoo's recent authorization bug in your app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7799442
by reinwald • 12 years ago
1 1 12 years ago

This is with reference to http://thehackernews.com/2014/05/vulnerability-in-yahoo-websites-allows.html

Authentication normally has three steps:

1. Authenticating User : username, passwd verification i.e a valid yahoo user 2. Authorizing Action (role based access): whether user is allowed to perform the action i.e user is allowed to delete comments 3. Authorizing Entity : verify user owns the entity i.e user is allowed to delete only his comments.

How do you handle the third step in your application ?

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