Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Derrick Rice <derrick(dot)rice(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner
Date: 2011-05-20 16:53:49
Message-ID: 1305910393-sup-7762@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Derrick Rice's message of vie may 20 12:35:24 -0400 2011:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:
>
> > Well, for a specific object, any superuser, the database owner, the
> > schema owner, and the object owner could drop the object. This is not a
> > vulnerability.
> >
>
> It is not documented clearly. Any information not made clear is an
> opportunity for an error which leads to a vulnerability.

So we need a standard caveat stmt on all relevant pages? Seems
reasonable to me.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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