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When ANALYZE imports statistics from a remote server, it fetched/stored
the statistics while still running as the user executing ANALYZE, not as
the foreign table's owner. This is inconsistent with the sampling path,
and it causes a security issue: a role that owns a foreign table but has
no access to the underlying remote data (eg, no access privileges on the
remote server) could obtain that data by having a privileged user run
ANALYZE on the table; the imported statistics like most_common_vals then
expose sampled values from the remote data, as shown in the reproducer
on the discussion thread.
To fix, switch to the foreign table owner's userid in analyze_rel()
before calling the ImportForeignStatistics() routine, mirroring the
identity used by the sampling path. This not only makes the privilege
handling consistent between the sampling/import paths, but also prevents
statistics import from disclosing data the table owner couldn't
otherwise obtain.
Oversight in commit 28972b6fc.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Osama Abdul Qader <osamaabdulqader.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK16jVk+i2KMkkgR9ajoPdaUAinvcspkk5Bc6urbo2xYTMQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19
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