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PostgreSQL Vulnerability Allows Hackers To Execute Arbitrary SQL Functions (gbhackers.com)

submitted 5 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pg_dump, which is often a superuser.

And this, my friends, is why you create a separate user to do the backups with read-only privileges.