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* pgsql: Fix privilege handling in postgres_fdw statistics import.
@ 2026-09-26 11:36  Etsuro Fujita <efujita@postgresql.org>
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From: Etsuro Fujita @ 2026-09-26 11:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix privilege handling in postgres_fdw statistics import.

When ANALYZE imports statistics from a remote server, it fetched/stored
the statistics while still running as the user executing ANALYZE, not as
the foreign table's owner.  This is inconsistent with the sampling path,
and it causes a security issue: a role that owns a foreign table but has
no access to the underlying remote data (eg, no access privileges on the
remote server) could obtain that data by having a privileged user run
ANALYZE on the table; the imported statistics like most_common_vals then
expose sampled values from the remote data, as shown in the reproducer
on the discussion thread.

To fix, switch to the foreign table owner's userid in analyze_rel()
before calling the ImportForeignStatistics() routine, mirroring the
identity used by the sampling path.   This not only makes the privilege
handling consistent between the sampling/import paths, but also prevents
statistics import from disclosing data the table owner couldn't
otherwise obtain.

Oversight in commit 28972b6fc.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Osama Abdul Qader <osamaabdulqader.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK16jVk+i2KMkkgR9ajoPdaUAinvcspkk5Bc6urbo2xYTMQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
------
master

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7d47e41238004b6b8bce076d4bb76d858257b58d

Modified Files
--------------
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c |  9 ++++-----
src/backend/commands/analyze.c      | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)



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* pgsql: Fix privilege handling in postgres_fdw statistics import.
@ 2026-09-26 11:36  Etsuro Fujita <efujita@postgresql.org>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Etsuro Fujita @ 2026-09-26 11:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix privilege handling in postgres_fdw statistics import.

When ANALYZE imports statistics from a remote server, it fetched/stored
the statistics while still running as the user executing ANALYZE, not as
the foreign table's owner.  This is inconsistent with the sampling path,
and it causes a security issue: a role that owns a foreign table but has
no access to the underlying remote data (eg, no access privileges on the
remote server) could obtain that data by having a privileged user run
ANALYZE on the table; the imported statistics like most_common_vals then
expose sampled values from the remote data, as shown in the reproducer
on the discussion thread.

To fix, switch to the foreign table owner's userid in analyze_rel()
before calling the ImportForeignStatistics() routine, mirroring the
identity used by the sampling path.   This not only makes the privilege
handling consistent between the sampling/import paths, but also prevents
statistics import from disclosing data the table owner couldn't
otherwise obtain.

Oversight in commit 28972b6fc.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Osama Abdul Qader <osamaabdulqader.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK16jVk+i2KMkkgR9ajoPdaUAinvcspkk5Bc6urbo2xYTMQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
------
REL_19_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/18c04668f781715614527aa85210026df2e49ed5

Modified Files
--------------
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c |  9 ++++-----
src/backend/commands/analyze.c      | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)



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