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Richard N. Hillegas commented on DERBY-7161:
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Attaching derby-7161-01-aa-traceFileAttributes.diff. This patch adds some
documentation which warns users about the security implications of the trace
file connection attributes. Also attaching
derby-7161-01-aa-traceFileAttributes.tar, a tarball of corresponding generated
output.
Touches the following files:
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M src/adminguide/cadminappsclient.dita
Adds a warning to the Admin Guide's "Accessing the Network Server by using the
network client driver" topic.
M src/devguide/cdevdvlp51654.dita
Adds a warning to the Developer's Guide's "Working with the database connection
URL attributes" topic.
M src/ref/rrefattrib24612.dita
Adds a warning to the Reference Guide's "Setting attributes for the database
connection URL" topic.
M src/security/csecintrosafer.dita
Adds a warning to the Security Guide's "Designing safer Derby applications"
topic.
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> Document the need for client-side applications to vet user-supplied
> connection directives
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>
> Key: DERBY-7161
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7161
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Documentation, Network Client
> Affects Versions: 10.18.0.0
> Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: derby-7161-01-aa-traceFileAttributes.diff,
> derby-7161-01-aa-traceFileAttributes.tar
>
>
> Somewhere, we should document the fact that client-side applications should
> not use user-supplied URLs or Properties objects to connect to remote
> databases. Those URLs and Properties objects may contain instructions for
> tracing network traffic. If the client-side application runs from a more
> privileged account than the user, then this could let the user pollute parts
> of the directory system to which the user does not normally have
> write-access. Client-side applications should vet all user-supplied
> directives before establishing connections.
> A related MySQL problem is described by [1].
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/security-site/compare/main...raboof:security-site:mysql
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