Re: SameSite issues in Safari Browser (reference #RM5975) - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Dave,

There are issues discussed on Apple forums, check this out:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/129064 - The latest comment by the user here is one month ago, meaning the issue is still not fixed yet.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/658688 - Users facing this issue in v13.x 

Even webkit has confirmed about this issue : https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198181 - Users facing this issue in v12.x

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 6:57 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Hi

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:37 AM Rahul Shirsat <rahul.shirsat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

Due to SameSite security issues in Safari Browser, some of the pgadmin4 functionality isn't working (mostly the new tab functionality).

The affected Safari Browser versions (marked in red) currently tested upon are:

1. v11.1.2
2. v12.1
3. v12.1.1
4. 13.1
5. 14.0.1

Since v12, Safari have done some security fixes, due to which this issue has occurred. Strangely, the issue is not reproducible on v13, but reproducible on its successor i.e. v14

Possible solutions could be:

1. Reporting this to Safari & raising an RM for tracking purposes.
2. Suggesting Safari users to make below changes in config.py or config_distro for the work around:

SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE = None
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True

(As we aren't going through any cross-site cookie transfer, this can be a handy option - but still risky..)

I would suggest going with the 1st option or combination of both, but with caution.

Others must have come across this issue already. Is it a known bug, documented somewhere (ideally on apple.com)?

 

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Rahul Shirsat

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