Roman Valls wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-posting, but I guess that's also interesting to
> Galaxy users...
> 
> I've been thinking about input validation too... only a bit more
> generally, on a server/production basis. Nate, on your production
> setup[1] (galaxy main), do you use any kind of filter or framework a la
> modsecurity[2] to prevent security issues on third party tools ? How do
> you mitigate those security risks ?

Hi Roman,

We don't run modsecurity because we don't run Apache, but tools do
perform input validation, and parameters are santized of any shell
special characters.  In addition, tools only have write access to their
own datasets and working directory.

--nate

> 
> [1] http://usegalaxy.org/production
> [2] http://modsecurity.org/
> 
> On 2011-06-23 00:27, Jennifer Jackson wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Dan Blankenberg is our ChIP-seq expert and will be able to work with you
> > when he returns from vacation.
> > 
> > Thank you for your patience!
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Jen
> > Galaxy team
> > 
> > On 6/20/11 2:22 PM, Russell Bonneville wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am Russell, a student working with Dr. Victor Jin at the Dept. of
> >> Biomedical Informatics, OSU Medical Center. I am developing a Galaxy
> >> wrapper for our ChIP-seq peak-calling program BELT (PMID: 21138948), and
> >> I have a question about input validation. Does Galaxy filter for
> >> malicious field entries (such as XSS attacks) or is this our wrapper’s
> >> responsibility (the MACS wrapper appears to not perform any explicit
> >> checks)? Thank you for your time.
> >>
> >> Sincerely, Russell Bonneville
> >>
> >>
> >>
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