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Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting org.postgresql:postgresql package, versions [,42.2.5)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGPOSTGRESQL-173997
  • published 30 Aug 2018
  • disclosed 10 Aug 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 10 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10936 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-300 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.postgresql:postgresql to version 42.2.5 or higher.

Overview

org.postgresql:postgresql is a Java JDBC 4.2 (JRE 8+) driver for PostgreSQL database.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM). It was possible to provide an SSL Factory and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the driver.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High