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MySQL 5.0 information leak?

Subject: MySQL 5.0 information leak?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:05:02 +0100
Hi.

I just upgraded to mysql 5.0.18 and started using all those cool new 
features. :)

But concerning VIEWs, I think the information_schema is too verbose to 
the user. I started creating a VIEW that searches information from 
several tables, mangles the data and gives the user a clean table with 
his data. So far, so good.

But I only give the user access to this VIEW, so he cannot see what's 
done to get his data from several tables.

SHOW CREATE VIEW myview;
does (correctly) result in an error that the user is not allowed to see 
the CREATE VIEW.

But SELECT * FROM information_schema.views; returns the full query that 
ceates the desired VIEW.

I think of this as a security issue because I have user accounts (nss) 
that have publicly available credentials but noone should be able to 
see how the database really is organized. 

What do you think of this? Bug?

cu, Bernd

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