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Scope migrate dev shadow database privileges to the prisma_migrate_shadow_db% name pattern instead of *.*, and document manual shadowDatabaseUrl grants. Fixes prisma#7986
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe ORM v6 and v7 documentation now scopes MySQL/MariaDB shadow database privileges to Prisma Migrate’s automatic shadow database pattern and documents equivalent grants for explicitly configured shadow databases. ChangesShadow database privilege guidance
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The documented grant can either provide access to unintended databases or fail to authorize generated shadow databases, so the pattern should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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apps/docs/content/docs/orm/v6/prisma-migrate/understanding-prisma-migrate/shadow-database.mdx:152-152,
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- Line 137: Update all three GRANT statements to escape each underscore as \_
while leaving % unescaped, using \_ rather than \\_ inside the existing
double-quoted shell argument. Add guidance that users must configure a dedicated
shadowDatabaseUrl when MySQL partial_revokes=ON.
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| When Prisma Migrate creates shadow databases automatically during `migrate dev`, it names them `prisma_migrate_shadow_db_<id>`. Grant the required privileges on that name pattern instead of on all databases (`*.*`): | ||
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| GRANT CREATE, ALTER, DROP, REFERENCES ON `prisma_migrate_shadow_db%`.* TO 'user'@'%'; |
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In MySQL, the underscore () and percent (%) characters act as wildcards when used in database names within GRANT statements at the database level (e.g., GRANT... ON db_name.*) [1][2][3][4]. Key Considerations for Database Name Wildcards: - Escaping: To use literal underscore or percent characters in a database name (to avoid matching multiple databases), you must escape them with a backslash (), for example, \_ or \% [1][2][3]. - Deprecation: The use of these wildcards in GRANT statements is deprecated and subject to removal in future MySQL versions [1][2][4]. - Specificity: When resolving grants with wildcards, MySQL applies only the first matching grant found [1][2][3]. - Literal Interpretation: When a database name is used as a qualifier for other objects (e.g., GRANT... ON db_name.tbl_name), these characters are interpreted as literals, not wildcards [1][2][3]. Impact of partial_revokes: When the partial_revokes system variable is enabled, MySQL changes how it handles these wildcards [1][2][4]. In this mode, unescaped underscore () and percent (%) characters in database names are interpreted as literal characters, effectively behaving as if they had been escaped [1][2][4]. Because this alters privilege assignment logic, it is recommended to avoid unescaped wildcards in privilege statements if your environment has or might have partial_revokes enabled [1][2][4]. The partial_revokes system variable itself allows administrators to revoke specific schema-level privileges from users who otherwise hold global privileges [5][6]. It is disabled by default [5][6]. Top results: [1], [5], [6]
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Citations:
- 1: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/grant.html
- 2: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.7/en/grant.html
- 3: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/grant.html
- 4: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.1/en/grant.html
- 5: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/partial-revokes.html
- 6: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/partial-revokes.html
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In MySQL and MariaDB, database and host names in GRANT statements can contain wildcard characters, which follow the same pattern-matching rules as the LIKE clause [1][2]. Wildcards and Escaping: - %: Matches any number of characters, including zero [3]. - _: Matches any single character [3]. - Escaping: To use these characters literally (e.g., to grant privileges on a database named 'test_db' specifically), they must be escaped using a backslash [1][2]. Because the backslash is also an escape character in strings, it is often necessary to use double backslashes (e.g., test\_db) to ensure the database correctly interprets the literal underscore [3]. Database Wildcard Matching Order: When multiple GRANT entries match a database name, the system applies the most specific matching grant [4][5]. Specificity is defined by the number of database names a pattern can match; a pattern that matches fewer databases is considered more specific and takes precedence [4][5]. For example, a grant on sales% is more specific than a grant on % [4][5]. Partial Revokes: The term "partial revokes" generally refers to the ability to restrict privileges on specific objects even if a user has broader global or database-level privileges [6]. In standard GRANT/REVOKE management, revoking a privilege does not necessarily block it if a broader grant still exists [6]. To outright block a privilege regardless of other grants, systems like MariaDB provide a DENY statement [6][7], which explicitly blocks access and takes precedence over existing privileges [6]. Unlike REVOKE, which removes a permission, DENY acts as a negative privilege [7].
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Citations:
- 1: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-statements/account-management-sql-statements/create-user
- 2: https://mariadb.com/docs/maxscale/maxscale-security/authentication-modules
- 3: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-functions/string-functions/like
- 4: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-statements/account-management-sql-statements/grant
- 5: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-statements/account-management-sql-statements/grant.md
- 6: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-statements/account-management-sql-statements/revoke
- 7: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/system-tables/the-mysql-database-tables/mysql-global_priv-table.md
Security Misconfiguration
Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Correct the GRANT patterns in all three sites.
Escape each _ as \_ and keep % unescaped. Use \_, not \\_, in the existing double-quoted shell argument.
When MySQL has partial_revokes=ON, % and _ are literal. The pattern then does not match generated shadow databases. State that users must configure a dedicated shadowDatabaseUrl.
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In
`@apps/docs/content/docs/orm/v7/prisma-migrate/understanding-prisma-migrate/shadow-database.mdx`
at line 137, Update all three GRANT statements to escape each underscore as \_
while leaving % unescaped, using \_ rather than \\_ inside the existing
double-quoted shell argument. Add guidance that users must configure a dedicated
shadowDatabaseUrl when MySQL partial_revokes=ON.
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The scoped shadow-database grant relies on % wildcards in database names, which MySQL deprecated as of 8.0.35 and treats as literal characters when partial_revokes is enabled. Tell readers on such servers to use a dedicated shadowDatabaseUrl database instead, and link the MySQL references.
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Reviewed One finding, fixed in The new grant depends on I added one paragraph after the grant in all three pages (v6 and v7 Housekeeping note: my first push went to a new I'll re-review the new head cold in a couple of minutes. — reviewer |
Prisma Migrate creates and drops indexes on MySQL with standalone CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX statements, which need the INDEX privilege; CREATE and ALTER only cover index definitions inside CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE. Without INDEX, migrate dev fails on the shadow database for any schema with @unique or @@index. Add it to the grant, the table row, and say why.
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Cold re-read of One finding, fixed in The privilege list Change: I'll re-review — reviewer |
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Review clean at 64a3167 Cold re-read of the head, including both of my own fix commits. Gates run on this head from What the PR does: on the v6 and v7 shadow-database pages and the v6 MySQL page, it replaces the What I verified this pass, against sources rather than the description: the engine's MySQL shadow-database path ( Risk: low. Documentation only, three pages, every claim in the new text traced to engine source or the vendor reference, and the previous wording was strictly more permissive so a reader who follows the new advice cannot end up with fewer working privileges than the engine needs. The one thing I did not do is execute the grant against a live MySQL 8 server; the caveat paragraph covers the case where wildcards do not apply. No follow-up tasks proposed. — reviewer |
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Thank you for contributing, @sharadvc. Scoping the shadow database grants is a meaningful security improvement for MySQL readers, and it is now merged. Thanks as well for working through the review rounds. |
Summary
Scopes MySQL/MariaDB shadow-database grants away from
*.*to Prisma’sprisma_migrate_shadow_db_<id>naming pattern, with guidance for a manualshadowDatabaseUrldatabase.Updates v6/v7 shadow database pages and the MySQL overview
migrate devgrant example.Test plan
pnpm lint:linksFixes #7986
Summary by CodeRabbit
INDEXprivilege.partial_revokeslimitations, including recommendations to use a dedicated shadow database when applicable.