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stop Firestore warning that everyone can read data
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Your Cloud Firestore database has insecure: any user can read your entire database
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I am new to firebase, and am a bit stuck with the rules.
My app is essentially a blog-site.
It allows non-logged in to read posts, users, comments.
It also allows logged-in and verified users to create a post.
Here are my rules
rules_version = '2';
service cloud.firestore {
match /databases/{database}/documents {
match /{document=**} {
allow read: if true;
allow write: if request.auth.uid != null;
}
}
}
Firebase sends me emails that these are not secure due to "any user can read your entire database".
Is there something I am missing? As I want people to be able to read the data without being logged in?
I believe you're still getting that due to, based on the "if true" logic, any user has the ability to read anyone else's "stuff." What you could do is add some functions within the match database documents that return more tailored tests. You really want to avoid an open database in Firestore, so part of that is by design, in-terms of that e-mail you're getting. I went through this same issue myself, and ended up moving over to Mongo for that particular use case.
However, if you want to keep it open, you can turn off the alert emails from the console. Click on Firebase alerts in the top-right, click settings (gear), select your project, just choose which you want to receive. I know those alerts can get annoying, haha, but it's Google's way of trying to help :) good luck!
Firebase prefers that you call out each collection individually in your security rules to allow access, rather than use a wildcard to match everything. They have no way of knowing if you actually have some private data in a collection and are accidentally giving access to it. By specifying rules for each collection separately, you are being very clear and specific about the access for each one of them.
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Firebase security rules to check unique value of a child #AskFirebase
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I am using Firebase Web SDK in my project. At the moment I am creating a simple mailing list sign up form. I am trying to check that no duplicate emails get signed up. At the moment, it is possible to do this as firebase creates a message id one level up from the data being stored and I do not know how to validate it.
Here is my code:
db.ref("/signup_emails").push({
name: d.name,
email: d.email
}
Whenever this creates an entry into the database it does so with a message_id. Like so"
signup_emails {
- M1itOVYTq-ySh_49rH3 {
name: "John"
email: "example#example.com"
}
}
How do I validate that the email has only been signed up once?
As you have things structured now, it is not possible with Firebase security rules. If you want to know if there's child node with a specific value, and you don't know its full path, you would have to perform a query to find it. However, security rules don't have the ability to perform a query. You can only reference a node by its fully specified path.
If you want to use security rules to find a piece of data, that data will have to be the name of a node that contains that data. So, the email address, or some form of it, will have to be in the path, not in a value.
Or, you can push the logic into backend code that can perform the check for you.
I am building a NodeJS Express app and am using Firebase as the backend. I am trying to secure my firebase backend, more specifically the firestore database with Firestore Security Rules. However, I cannot seem to get my security rules to trigger.
I have a route called /api/goalPRs/:goalPRId which updates a database ref with the body of the request by calling
const goalPRsRef = db.collection('goalProgressReports');
goalPRsRef.doc(goalPRId).update(newGoalPR).then(()=>({update: 'Success'}));
Now, each goalPR has a field called targetGoalId, which I want to be constant, I dont want that data to be editable. Hence I have tried to set up the following firestore security rule.
service cloud.firestore {
match /databases/{database}/documents {
match /goalProgressReports/{goalPR} {
allow update: if request.resource.data.targetGoalId == resource.data.targetGoalId;
}
}
}
With this security rule I expect that any update to a document within goalProgressReport collection should be denied if the old targetGoalId is not equal to the new one. However, this is not the case. I can provide a new targetGoalId and it incorrectly updates.
Also, even when I try something like this with the security rules:
service cloud.firestore {
match /databases/{database}/documents {
match /{document=**} {
allow read, write: if false
}
}
}
I am still allowed to write to the database, even though from my understanding this rule shouldn't allow any reads or writes to the database. Is my understanding of how security rules work incorrect? How can I fix my goalProgressReport security rule to not allow updates if the targetGoalId has changed?
Since you're running on nodejs, that means you're using either the Cloud Firestore node SDK or the Firebase Admin SDK which wraps the Cloud SDK. In this case, security rules don't apply. They only apply to access coming directly from web and mobile applications, and not from the server SDKs. The server SDKs always bypass all security rules, because it's coming from a privileged service account.
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In Firebase security rules how can you stop hackers running a script for signup to your website? bare in mind I need them to be able to signup
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Anybody who knows how to write scripts in Tampermonkey extension or how to create create extension can easily inject javascript code in webpage and access config keys. So how do you secure it?
var config = {
apiKey: "apiKey",
authDomain: "projectId.firebaseapp.com",
databaseURL: "https://databaseName.firebaseio.com",
storageBucket: "bucket.appspot.com"
};
firebase.initializeApp(config);
Right now only thing I can think of is wrap in anonymous function to avoid variable accessibility globally. which can prevent accessing variable.
It is still not secure, developer can ajax javascript file and parse data using regex, so how do you prevent it?
Another thing I thought of that is using nodejs as backend and use restapi to get data but it also exclude it being real time database. In addition I'd have to use socket.io to transfer data to client side in realtime if firebase update database in realtime in backend.
Because If anyone can inject script to access config keys can also read & write anywhere in database at his own will where read and write permission is granted.
which is a security concern. Any keys available on client is risky. so how do you prevent such attack?
This is a fairly common question. The answer is: no, a client cant write and read from everywhere in the database but only where your rules allow it.
This is exactly like REST, if you have a REST API then all your endpoints are public. What prevents mischief use are the server rules.
In this case, the database rules are in charge of securing and validating the data.
The simplest rule is user is logged in:
Items: {
.read: if auth != null,
.write: if auth != null
}
You can also have more common rules, like owner permissions
user_items: {
$uid: {
.read: if auth.uid == $uid,
.write: if auth.uid == $uid
}
}
The previous example considers a data structure where each user has its own node, but if for any reason you meant to keep it all in the same node it can be done using query rules. My recommendation would be to use the above structure, that way in the future, an admin feature can be added by denormalizing data.
The difference here is you are exposing your credentials if you take a look at them, there is nothing really private but only needed data for Firebase to match the request with your project, beyond that your project has to define the security. Please, take care of securing RTD, Firestore and Storage.
I have a node web app where I use Firebase for data storage, and I was wondering if there was a way from the Firebase console to add Rules to only allow creation and viewing of data on a certain database.
For example, in my app, I want users to be able to create a message and view messages, however I don't want them to ever be able to delete them.
Is there a way to restrict deletion of documents in Firestore rules?
You can break down write into more granular operations, as stated in the docs:
A read rule can be broken into get and list, while a write rule can be broken into create, update, and delete:
An example of your particular case:
service cloud.firestore {
match /databases/{database}/documents {
match /messages/{messageId} {
allow read, create, update: if request.auth.uid != null;
}
}
}
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How to protect firebase Cloud Function HTTP endpoint to allow only Firebase authenticated users?
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Closed 5 years ago.
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to check auth object from client that called firebase https cloud function to achive following tasks:
1) Only allow authed users with verified email call https endpoint, otherwise return 403.
2) Somehow gain access to uid of client that called a function in order to set node like characters/:uid in database.
Reason for this is to disallow duplicate characters. I can manually pass uid in req.body, but this means that anyone could fiddle with this and create 100 different characters by sending any sort of uid as req.body payload.
Only work around I can think of for this is changing this logic to database triggers i.e. client writes to database void/characters/uid node (database rules do this whole validation) then function listens to this change in database, processes data and pushes it to characters/uid
But this means additional logic like removing node after it is done is needed, plus I am not sure how to send back error or success response back to client, as with https functions we can just res.send(200) or send back error.
If I understand this, I think this can be done by firebase rules.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/security/database/#location
In the example provided, a rule like :
".write": "auth.uid === $user"
Would only allow authenticated users with the same uid as appears on the path to write data there.
I am uncertain if a 403 is returned. This implies that you are using firebase authentication, which is covered in some depth here, depending on the mechanism you are using for authentication.