Re: [PATCH] Re: [BUG][Security] begin_src :var evaluated before the prompt to confirm execution

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 28/10/2022 10:15, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> 
>> See the attached tentative patch.
>> I tried to balance between annoying users with query and not evaluating
>> unsafe code: '-quoted lists and symbols are still evaluated without
>> prompt.
>> 
>> Let me know if you see any potential issues.
>
> If I got it right, it prompt user for every variable. I believed that 
> single prompt is enough for both header arguments and body evaluation. 
> Maybe I missed some issue with dependent code blocks. If I remember 
> correctly, each block causes a prompt and I am not going to dispute such 
> behavior. Unsure if early prompt may increase user confusion since some 
> blocks will be evaluated not immediately after related prompt but 
> perhaps after some delay to confirm dependent code.

You are right that a separate prompt will be shown for each eval form,
even when multiple :var assignments are present in the header arguments.

I could try to patch the higher-level function that is causing the
"pwned" in your example, but I figured that org-babel-read is actually
used in many more places and thus similar issue could occur in different
scenarios. Displaying prompt in org-babel-read is the safest approach I
managed to come up with.

What can help here is the feature request about bulk-yes/bulk-no code
prompts:
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/l-mfSe5KD9g7LPdD7qHPtqtjBD45DK8OeOqO6ybMWqoXG-oEQAFjlW1V1N1NtJQBWM_A4CeGT_92rpSKF7Aq0KRzsNmMZfAJnAbyVWeCjoA=@protonmail.ch/

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