Re: Possible to store invalid SCRAM-SHA-256 Passwords

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Possible to store invalid SCRAM-SHA-256 Passwords
Date: 2019-04-22 22:42:01
Message-ID: 30284.1555972921@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> OK, so I have something that sort of works, i.e:

> if (strncmp(shadow_pass, "md5", 3) == 0 &&
> strlen(shadow_pass) == MD5_PASSWD_LEN &&
> strspn(shadow_pass, MD5_PASSWD_CHARSET) == MD5_PASSWD_LEN
> )

> where MD5_PASSWD_CHARSET = "mabcdef0123456789"

> ...but you may notice something: the CHARSET contains an "m" as we store
> that "md5" prefix on the md5 hashed passwords.

Yeah, that's silly; why not

strspn(shadow_pass + 3, MD5_PASSWD_CHARSET) == MD5_PASSWD_LEN - 3

It's not like this code isn't very well aware of the first 3 characters
being not like the others.

regards, tom lane

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