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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:49:47 +0100
From: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: postgresql: pg_dump creates world-readable dump
Hello,
I just discovered that pg_dump creates the database dump with world readable
permission (644 to be exactly).
I provided to inform upstream about, and this was the response:
On Sunday 07 December 2014 10:34:19 Noah Misch wrote:
> You presumably have umask 0022. Like most programs, pg_dump does not
> constrain modes of files it creates; adjust your umask for that. A few
> programs do otherwise; for example, ssh-keygen specifically constrains the
> mode of new private key files. A database dump is not in such a special
> category, so pg_dump should continue to do the standard thing.
A local user is able to copy it and discover sensitive data.
In my opinion it deserves a cve.
--
Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo Linux Developer
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