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From: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Schema Usage Patterns vs. dbowner or CREATEROLE
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:35:12 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

When I updated
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/ddl-schemas.html#DDL-SCHEMAS-PATTERNS
for CVE-2018-1058, I wrote that some schema usage patterns are secure against
CREATEROLE users and database owners.  That was incorrect.  Even with the
first pattern, a database owner can attack the database's users via "CREATE
SCHEMA trojan; ALTER DATABASE $mydb SET search_path = trojan, public;".  A
CREATEROLE user can issue "GRANT $dbowner TO $me" and then use the database
owner attack.  I plan to update this section to assert that all three usage
patterns are equally vulnerable to dbowner and CREATEROLE attack.  (The
technique described under "If untrusted users have access to a database ..."
in libpq.sgml remains secure.)

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