Information Exposure Affecting postgresql package, versions [,9.0.23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336014
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-5288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.0.23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

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