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Tatjana Azundris Nuernberg authored
Bug#11765687 (MySQL58677): No privilege on table / view, but can know #rows / underlying table's name 1 - If a user had SHOW VIEW and SELECT privileges on a view and this view was referencing another view, EXPLAIN SELECT on the outer view (that the user had privileges on) could reveal the structure of the underlying "inner" view as well as the number of rows in the underlying tables, even if the user had privileges on none of these referenced objects. This happened because we used DEFINER's UID ("SUID") not just for the view given in EXPLAIN, but also when checking privileges on the underlying views (where we should use the UID of the EXPLAIN's INVOKER instead). We no longer run the EXPLAIN SUID (with DEFINER's privileges). This prevents a possible exploit and makes permissions more orthogonal. 2 - EXPLAIN SELECT would reveal a view's structure even if the user did not have SHOW VIEW privileges for that view, as long as they had SELECT privilege on the underlying tables. Instead of requiring both SHOW VIEW privilege on a view and SELECT privilege on all underlying tables, we were checking for presence of either of them. We now explicitly require SHOW VIEW and SELECT privileges on the view we run EXPLAIN SELECT on, as well as all its underlying views. We also require SELECT on all relevant tables.
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