Re: SCRAM with channel binding downgrade attack

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: SCRAM with channel binding downgrade attack
Date: 2018-06-06 20:26:00
Message-ID: 8228733d-9a32-ea87-9352-dede06ba686b@iki.fi
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On 06/06/18 23:20, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Aren't we attacking this on the wrong level? We are here attempting to
> prevent a SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS -> SCRAM-SHA-256 downgrade, but we are not
> preventing a SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS -> anything-else downgrade.

The latest patch does prevent that, too. That was my complaint at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/030284cc-d1d6-ce88-b677-a814f61c1880%40iki.fi,
but it's been fixed now. (Or if you see a case where it still isn't,
that's a bug.)

- Heikki

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