Incorrect Authorization Affecting postgresql package, versions [9.3.0,9.3.24)[9.4.0,9.4.19)[9.5.0,9.5.14)[9.6.0,9.6.10)[10.0,10.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2335976
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10925  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-863  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.3.24, 9.4.19, 9.5.14, 9.6.10, 10.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization. It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.

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