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Bug #62978 pg_select() and similar are vulnerable to SQL injection via identifier
Submitted: 2012-08-30 22:58 UTC Modified: 2015-04-08 09:36 UTC
From: slokunshialgo at gmail dot com Assigned: yohgaki (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PostgreSQL related
PHP Version: 5.3 - master OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-08-30 22:58 UTC] slokunshialgo at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.pg-select#refsect1-function.pg-select-examples
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The one example given passes $_POST directly to pg_select as a list of parameters to select on. There are 2 major issues with this:

1) It doesn't show the actual parameters being passed, making the example difficult to understand
2) Using end-user-supplied values like this is a perfect vector for SQL injection, and as such as a huge security risk.

While #1 is a concern, #2 is a larger one, since newer programmers seeing it will think that's good practice, and start putting such security issues into their own code.

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 [2013-06-29 20:36 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Analyzed -Type: Documentation Problem +Type: Security -Package: Documentation problem +Package: PostgreSQL related -Assigned To: +Assigned To: yohgaki -Private report: No +Private report: Yes
 [2013-06-29 20:36 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
This is the way it is supposed to use. pg_select() and similar functions should 
automatically escape string vars, and they do. 

pg_select($db, 't1',['str'=>"It's a string"]);
produces
LOG:  文: SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE str='It''s a string';
Note that string is properly escaped.

However, they don't escape identifier. This should be fixed.
 [2013-06-29 20:36 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
This is the way it is supposed to use. pg_select() and similar functions should 
automatically escape string vars, and they do. 

pg_select($db, 't1',['str'=>"It's a string"]);
produces
LOG:  文: SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE str='It''s a string';
Note that string is properly escaped.

However, they don't escape identifier. This should be fixed.
 [2013-06-29 20:39 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Analyzed +Status: Assigned -Operating System: +Operating System: * -PHP Version: 5.4.6 +PHP Version: 5.3 - master
 [2013-06-29 20:39 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
I think this problem existed from the beginning. So any version which have 
pg_select()/etc are affected.
 [2013-06-29 20:49 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Summary: pg_select() doc example has severe security issues +Summary: pg_select() and similar are vulnerable to SQL injection via identifier
 [2013-06-29 20:49 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
Changed Summary to descriptive one.
 [2013-06-30 21:30 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
I've made patch against PHP-5.3

https://github.com/yohgaki/php-src/compare/PHP-5.3-pg_select_fix

It passes tests with PostgreSQL 9.2, but it should be tested with 8.4 or less.
This patch supposed to be able to merge upto master, but not tested yet.
 [2013-08-05 10:01 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2013-08-05 10:01 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
Fixed. 

http://git.php.net/?p=php-
src.git;a=commitdiff;h=cb8d1fc7f913085117da109f89a1e5a6cb535c09
 [2013-08-05 10:02 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Type: Security +Type: Bug
 [2013-08-05 10:02 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
This fix is treated as security enhancement, so 5.3 branch won't be fixed.
 
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