Access Restriction Bypass Affecting postgresql package, versions [,8.3.20)[8.4.0, 8.4.13)[9.0.0, 9.0.9)[9.1.0, 9.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336043
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-3488  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 8.3.20, 8.4.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The libxslt support in contrib/xml2 in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 does not properly restrict access to files and URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to modify data, obtain sensitive information, or trigger outbound traffic to arbitrary external hosts by leveraging (1) stylesheet commands that are permitted by the libxslt security options or (2) an xslt_process feature, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

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