Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Non-superuser subscription owners
Date: 2023-02-03 08:47:48
Message-ID: 20230203084748.odpbqaiil3lkyngq@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-02-02 09:28:03 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't know what you mean by this. DML doesn't confer privileges. If
> code gets executed and runs with the replication user's credentials,
> that could lead to privilege escalation, but just moving rows around
> doesn't, at least not in the database sense.

Executing DML ends up executing code. Think predicated/expression
indexes, triggers, default expressions etc. If a badly written trigger
etc can be tricked to do arbitrary code exec, an attack will be able to
run with the privs of the run-as user. How bad that is is influenced to
some degree by the amount of privileges that user has.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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