[patch] fix dblink security hole
От | Marko Kreen |
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Тема | [patch] fix dblink security hole |
Дата | |
Msg-id | e51f66da0808070653y3d3d065am5dfa258a6273b849@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: [patch] fix dblink security hole
Re: [patch] fix dblink security hole Re: [patch] fix dblink security hole |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
Currently dblink allows regular users to initiate libpq connection to user-provided connection string. This breaks the default policy that normal users should not be allowed to freely interact with outside environment. In addition to breaking standard security policy, dblink exposes .pgpass/pg_service.conf contents of the OS user database is running under to the non-privileged database user. (Esp. passwords) The were already couple of hacks added to libpq and dblink that disallow the re-use of passwords acquired from .pgpass/pg_service. The hacks make sure the password is used for login and it came from connection string. But they take effect *after* login is finished, thus leaving open even nastier hole - user can *look* at the passwords by simply directing the connection to host where is a Postgres-emulator installed that requests plaintext authentication. Attached patch fixes the problems by allowing only superusers to specify connection strings. Instead of playing with permissions, it hardwires the check to C code for following reasons: - encouraging use of SECURITY DEFINER functions to choose the connection string so they are always under control of admin - discouraging solutions where normal user can freely pick connection string - making dblink security similar to other remote-access solutions which do not let regular user pick connection string (plproxy / dbi-link) I understand some of current users may dislike the patch as currently dblink does not give any support for running it securely. I've outlined possible future API direction here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01302.php Mainly this involves creating superuser-controlled name->connstr lookup mechanism. Either specific to dblink or possibly built into core, so other remote-access solutions can use it also. -- marko
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