Cryptographic Issues Affecting postgresql package, versions [,8.3.19)[8.4.0, 8.4.12)[9.0.0, 9.0.8)[9.1.0, 9.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336077
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jul 2012

CVE-2012-2143  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 8.3.19, 8.4.12, 9.0.8, 9.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. The crypt_des (aka DES-based crypt) function in FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p2, as used in PHP, PostgreSQL, and other products, does not process the complete cleartext password if this password contains a 0x80 character, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain access via an authentication attempt with an initial substring of the intended password, as demonstrated by a Unicode password.

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