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Bug #74220 Special crafted SQL statement trips PDO
Submitted: 2017-03-07 22:34 UTC Modified: -
Votes:3
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.8
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (66.7%)
From: mfischer@php.net Assigned:
Status: Open Package: PDO PgSQL
PHP Version: 7.1.2 OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2017-03-07 22:34 UTC] mfischer@php.net
Description:
------------
I initially reported this at https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/10373 but was told "If you can reproduce this issue with raw PDO, then its not a CakePHP issue."

The provided SQL statement, as executed with PDO, does not insert the provided data correctly.

Prerequisites: create a db role / database table:

postgres=# create role username login password 'password';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# create database db owner username;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# \c db
You are now connected to database "db" as user "postgres".
db=# set role username;
SET
db=> create table models(field varchar(12));
CREATE TABLE

The provided SQL statement (see test script) is valid Postgres syntax.

Test script:
---------------
<?php
$pdo = new PDO('pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=db', 'username', 'password');
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$sql = <<<SQL
INSERT INTO models (field) values('\'':1');
SQL;
$pdo->query($sql);

$result = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM models');
var_dump($result->fetchAll());

Expected result:
----------------
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  array(2) {
    ["field"]=>
    string(4) "\':1"
    [0]=>
    string(4) "\':1"
  }
}


Actual result:
--------------
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  array(2) {
    ["field"]=>
    string(4) "\'$1"
    [0]=>
    string(4) "\'$1"
  }
}


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 [2017-03-08 12:14 UTC] mfischer@php.net
Not sure if I missed something obvious. For now I found multiple ways to
make it work:

1. use prepared statements (i.e. use :name or ? placeholder, etc.)
2. set the PDO flag PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to true
3. apply pgsql C-Style escape syntax [1], i.e. VALUES(E'\\'':1)


About 2): this worked for simple cases but failed in a large
application, didn't yet investigate why

About 3): haven't dug deeper whether this can cause more troubles or not

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-ESCAPE
 
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