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Subject: pgsql: psql: Don't do backquote expansion in \unrestrict.
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:30 +0000
Message-ID: <E1wtQFu-00000000yI2-0Vcg@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
psql: Don't do backquote expansion in \unrestrict.
This oversight in commit 71ea0d6795 allows a malicious server to
inject shell commands into plain-text dump output that are run at
restore time on the machine running psql. To fix, interpret all
text after \unrestrict until the end of the line as its argument.
Reported-by: Lucas Velgus <velgusgus599@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Filip Janus <fjanus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Bakker <daniel@jackds.nl>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Security: CVE-2026-18408
Backpatch-through: 14
Branch
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REL_16_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/33d0c63fb345f6b06893610a4a19644dd2450262
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 5 +++++
src/bin/psql/command.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
src/bin/psql/t/001_basic.pl | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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