Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting postgresql-devel package, versions <0:9.2.23-1.el7_4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-POSTGRESQLDEVEL-1474499
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 10 Aug 2017
Introduced: 10 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-7547 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 postgresql-devel to version 0:9.2.23-1.el7_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:2728.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postgresql-devel package and not the postgresql-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100275
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7547
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2728
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039142