Information Exposure Affecting postgresql package, versions [,9.2.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336010
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2017

CVE-2017-7484  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.2.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It was found that some selectivity estimation functions in PostgreSQL before 9.2.21, 9.3.x before 9.3.17, 9.4.x before 9.4.12, 9.5.x before 9.5.7, and 9.6.x before 9.6.3 did not check user privileges before providing information from pg_statistic, possibly leaking information. An unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to steal some information from tables they are otherwise not allowed to access.

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