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From: Derrick Rice <[email protected]>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:35:24 -0400
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Well, for a specific object, any superuser, the database owner, the
> schema owner, and the object owner could drop the object. This is not a
> vulnerability.
>

It is not documented clearly.  Any information not made clear is an
opportunity for an error which leads to a vulnerability.

It is not a vulnerability in postgresql itself.  It is a vulnerability in an
ill-designed system, which can come about due to misinformation / lack of
clarity.

Putting your first sentence ("For a specific object, any superuser, the
database owner, the schema owner, and the object owner could drop the
object.") in the documentation would remove the opportunity for error.

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