Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting postgresql14 package, versions <9.6.4-r0
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- published23 May 2024
- disclosed16 Aug 2017
Introduced: 16 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-7547 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 postgresql14 to version 9.6.4-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postgresql14 package and not the postgresql14 package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.
PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so.
References
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7547
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7547
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2677
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2678
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2728
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100275
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039142
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7547