From 05e17373517114167d002494e004fa0aa32d1fd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Davis
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:20:47 -0700
Subject: Fix search_path to a safe value during maintenance operations.

While executing maintenance operations (ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW, REINDEX, or VACUUM), set search_path to
'pg_catalog, pg_temp' to prevent inconsistent behavior.

Functions that are used for functional indexes, in index expressions,
or in materialized views and depend on a different search path must be
declared with CREATE FUNCTION ... SET search_path='...'.

This change addresses a security risk introduced in commit 60684dd834,
where a role with MAINTAIN privileges on a table may be able to
escalate privileges to the table owner. That commit is not yet part of
any release, so no need to backpatch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e44327179e5c9015c8dda67351c04da552066017.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
---
 src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c')

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
index a5168c9f097..a7c6a3dc7ad 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
 	int			root_save_nestlevel;
 
 	root_save_nestlevel = NewGUCNestLevel();
+	SetConfigOption("search_path", GUC_SAFE_SEARCH_PATH, PGC_USERSET,
+					PGC_S_SESSION);
 
 	/*
 	 * Some callers need us to run with an empty default_tablespace; this is a
@@ -1300,6 +1302,8 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
 				SetUserIdAndSecContext(childrel->rd_rel->relowner,
 									   child_save_sec_context | SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION);
 				child_save_nestlevel = NewGUCNestLevel();
+				SetConfigOption("search_path", GUC_SAFE_SEARCH_PATH, PGC_USERSET,
+								PGC_S_SESSION);
 
 				/*
 				 * Don't try to create indexes on foreign tables, though. Skip
@@ -3753,6 +3757,8 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, ReindexParams *params)
 		SetUserIdAndSecContext(heapRel->rd_rel->relowner,
 							   save_sec_context | SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION);
 		save_nestlevel = NewGUCNestLevel();
+		SetConfigOption("search_path", GUC_SAFE_SEARCH_PATH, PGC_USERSET,
+						PGC_S_SESSION);
 
 		/* determine safety of this index for set_indexsafe_procflags */
 		idx->safe = (indexRel->rd_indexprs == NIL &&
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