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  1. Derby
  2. DERBY-7161

Document the need for client-side applications to vet user-supplied connection directives

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 10.18.0.0
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      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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