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Add a bind_address option and --bind-address flag for explicit IPv4 or IPv6 listeners. Reject invalid addresses and include the address in the startup log.
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Verify challenge responses against a configured account. An account uses one authentication plugin, caching_sha2_password by default, with mysql_native_password available for clients that need it. Reject failed or malformed logins before selecting a database, discard queued commands, and close the connection. Require CLI credentials through a password file or environment variable. Keep client requests and response data out of debug logs, and cover authentication, startup, and client behavior with regression tests. Protocol references: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/page_caching_sha2_authentication_exchanges.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/page_protocol_connection_phase_authentication_methods_native_password_authentication.html
Reject a packet larger than 16 KB while the client is unauthenticated, so a partial login packet cannot make the session buffer up to 16 MB. Close a connection that has not completed a login within 10 seconds, which matches the default MySQL connect_timeout. Without it, idle connections held the proxy's file descriptors indefinitely.
The command built "USE <name>" from the client's bytes, so a name was parsed as SQL instead of an identifier. Reuse the quoting that the login path already applies, so a name with a backtick, a space, or a semicolon stays a name.
The port was -p, which every MySQL client reads as the password. Someone pasting "-psecret" set the port instead. The port is now -P, and -p is an unknown option, so a password passed that way is rejected, not misread.
The session kept serving after a quit, so a client that never closed the socket held it open forever. MySQL closes the connection itself. Track why a session closes, so a quit is logged as a quit while a failed login still stands out as an error.
A payload of exactly 16 MB - 1 means the message continues in the next packet. Each packet was treated as a whole message, so a larger query was cut at that boundary and its prefix was run on its own. Cap an assembled message at 16 MB and answer MySQL's 1153 past it, so joining packets cannot let one connection buffer without limit.
Reading the command byte of an empty packet raised a PHP warning per packet, and a deprecation on PHP 8.5, so a client could flood the log with them. Answer MySQL's 1835 and close the connection instead.
The OK packet builder requires an int, so a result built without an insert ID raised a TypeError that reached the client as an unknown error.
PHP type errors carry the absolute path of the calling file, so the server's layout could reach any authenticated client. Answer a plain 1105 and log the detail instead.
Refuse a connection past 151 open ones with MySQL's 1040 error, so the proxy keeps serving instead of running out of file descriptors. 151 is MySQL's own max_connections default.
COM_INIT_DB passed the adapter's error to the client, so selecting a missing database returned 1105 with the adapter's message, while the login returned MySQL's 1049 for the same name. Select the database the same way in both places, so both answer 1049 and the adapter's details stay in the log. Unlike the login, a failed COM_INIT_DB keeps the connection open.
The login timeout only covered clients that had not logged in yet, so a logged-in client could stay connected without sending anything and keep one of the connection slots forever. Give every connection a single deadline: LOGIN_TIMEOUT until it logs in, then IDLE_TIMEOUT after each request. The idle limit matches MySQL's wait_timeout default of 8 hours. Data from a client that has not logged in does not extend its login deadline.
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packages/mysql-proxy/src/class-mysql-authentication.php: 1
97-119: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 TrivialConsider throttling failed logins when the listener is not on loopback.
verify()returns at once, andreject_authentication()closes the connection with no delay. A client can reconnect and try another password right away. The only limits areMAX_CONNECTIONSandLOGIN_TIMEOUT, and neither slows repeated attempts. The default127.0.0.1listener reduces this risk. The documented--bind-address=0.0.0.0and::options remove that protection.The proxy is single-threaded, so a blocking
sleep()in the session would stall every client. Use one of these options instead:
- Record failed attempts per peer address in
MySQL_Proxy. Hold rejected sockets until a short deadline before closing them. Refuse new connections from a peer address that exceeds a failure threshold.- At minimum, state in the README that a network-exposed proxy has no brute-force protection and needs a strong password or a firewall.
Based on learnings: "Flag password-check code paths that have no rate-limiting, delay, or lockout mechanism as a security gap."
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Review comments at @packages/mysql-proxy/src/class-mysql-authentication.php:
- Around line 97-119: Document that network-exposed listeners configured through
bind-address options such as 0.0.0.0 or :: do not provide brute-force
protection, and advise using a strong password or firewall; do not add blocking
delays to verify() because the proxy is single-threaded.
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Summary
The experimental MySQL proxy currently accepts arbitrary credentials and listens on all network interfaces. This change requires configured credentials and defaults the listener to
127.0.0.1.The proxy now:
caching_sha2_passwordby default. Older clients can usemysql_native_passwordwhen the account is configured for it, and a client that picks another method is switched to the account's method, as MySQL does.WP_MYSQL_PROXY_PASSWORDor a password file, with strict argument validation.It also limits what a single client can do, following MySQL's defaults:
COM_QUIT, refuses empty command packets, and keeps internal error details out of client errors.COM_INIT_DBand reports an unknown database there as error 1049.Regression coverage checks malformed and fragmented logins, replay attempts, queued commands, credential logging, and connections through the MySQL CLI, PDO, and MySQLi. CI runs the proxy suite on PHP 7.2 and 8.5.
Compatibility
Existing callers must supply credentials. PHP callers must configure
usernameandpassword; CLI callers must supply--userand a password source. DirectMySQL_Sessioncallers must also pass aMySQL_Authenticationinstance. Callers that need a network listener must explicitly set its bind address.PDO and MySQLi on PHP below 7.4.4 can't use
caching_sha2_password. For those clients, set the account's plugin with--auth-plugin=mysql_native_passwordor theauth_pluginoption.The CLI port option is now
-P, as in MySQL clients.-pis no longer accepted.TLS remains unsupported. Authentication does not encrypt queries or results; remote connections need a protected transport such as an SSH tunnel.
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