Re: Addressing SECURITY DEFINER Function Vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL Extensions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, John H <johnhyvr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Addressing SECURITY DEFINER Function Vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL Extensions
Date: 2024-07-15 20:04:53
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZTgq0=pg9wJY+iQXz9pLS0COSuN_ZwJfgs4r_tCN17sg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 2:33 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 13:44 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > But ... why? I mean, what's the point of prohibiting that?
>
> Agreed. We ignore all kinds of stuff in search_path that doesn't make
> sense, like non-existent schemas. Simpler is better.

Oh, I had the opposite idea: I wasn't proposing ignoring it. I was
proposing making it work.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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