Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libpq-devel package, versions <0:13.5-1.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-LIBPQDEVEL-1920827
  • published 13 Nov 2021
  • disclosed 11 Nov 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libpq-devel to version 0:13.5-1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1891.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpq-devel package and not the libpq-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the client's first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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

3.7 low
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SUSE

3.7 low