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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 20:26:41 +0300
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: postgresql: pg_dump creates world-readable dump
On 2014-12-07 16:49:47 +0100, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> I just discovered that pg_dump creates the database dump with
> world readable permission (644 to be exactly).
The keyword is "creates".
> 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.
Have you followed the advise? Did it helped?
> A local user is able to copy it and discover sensitive data.
Only if that user is allowed to enter the directory where the dump
is stored, etc.
> In my opinion it deserves a cve.
Misconfiguration != vulnerability.
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
GPG: 8832FE9FA791F7968AC96E4E909DAC45EF3B1FA8 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net
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