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by brokenparser 4832 days ago
It has to be something severe for this scenario to come into play. A broken procedure can only be exploited if such a procedure exists and can be invoked as the definer. This model is well understood by all, to the point a vulnerable PL may not be a critical issue for most users.

Given the precautions that have been implemented, my bets are on authentication. This would mostly affect TCP/IP enabled hosts, which is fortunately not a default configuration (tested on Ubuntu).