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Prevent path traversal in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind
authorMichael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Mon, 11 May 2026 12:13:51 +0000 (05:13 -0700)
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Mon, 11 May 2026 12:13:51 +0000 (05:13 -0700)
commit498829dca45ad207a23954fe2e5a30ed2ef4b363
tree8ae479dc97c3c1c6046d9342ac449d904578cd76
parent98675336195b526edc69890d68a1dc0408d63b3f
Prevent path traversal in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind

pg_rewind and pg_basebackup could be fed paths from rogue endpoints that
could overwrite the contents of the client when received, achieving path
traversal.

There were two areas in the tree that were sensitive to this problem:
- pg_basebackup, through the astreamer code, where no validation was
performed before building an output path when streaming tar data.  This
is an issue in v15 and newer versions.
- pg_rewind file operations for paths received through libpq, for all
the stable branches supported.

In order to address this problem, this commit adds a helper function in
path.c, that reuses path_is_relative_and_below_cwd() after applying
canonicalize_path().  This can be used to validate the paths received
from a connection point.  A path is considered invalid if any of the two
following conditions is satisfied:
- The path is absolute.
- The path includes a direct parent-directory reference.

Reported-by: XlabAI Team of Tencent Xuanwu Lab
Reported-by: Valery Gubanov <valerygubanov95@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6475
src/bin/pg_rewind/file_ops.c
src/include/port.h
src/port/path.c