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A grantee of amcheck function EXECUTE privilege could execute arbitrary functions as the owners of expression indexes that depend on the search path. An expression like (lower(col)) was not vulnerable, because lower() is resolved at CREATE INDEX time. However, an expression calling an sql-language or plpgsql-language function often was vulnerable, even if it used search_path only to find objects in pg_catalog. The amcheck documentation has been warning about data disclosure after such a GRANT, not about function execution. This might cause new amcheck errors when index expressions rely on a broader search_path. Such indexes have seen errors during auto-analyze since CVE-2018-1058 commit582edc369c, and v17 amcheck always worked this way. Hence, the risk is low. Leave a comment on the one other sandbox entrance that doesn't empty search_path. In its case, the choice was valid. Back-patch to v14 (all supported versions), but v17 was safe already. Commit2af07e2f74(v17) unintentionally blocked the attack, and commitd70b17636d(v18) unintentionally removed that protection. Hence, this adds to v17 just a test and a comment. While emptying search_path became more widespread in commit2af07e2f74(v17), none of its other changes blocked an attack available in v16, even when considering GRANT. For example, brin_summarize_range() has had an owner check that GRANT does not override. Reported-by: 王跃林 <violin0613@tju.edu.cn> Reported-by: Jacob Brazeal <jacob.brazeal@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 14 Security: CVE-2026-14673
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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