Information Exposure Affecting postgresql package, versions [,9.0.20)[9.1,9.1.16)[9.2,9.2.11)[9.3,9.3.7)[9.4,9.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336080
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Nov 2019

CVE-2015-3167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.0.20, 9.1.16, 9.2.11, 9.3.7, 9.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 uses different error responses when an incorrect key is used, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain the key via a brute force attack.

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