Access Restriction Bypass Affecting postgresql package, versions [9.6,9.6.17)[10.0,10.12)[11.0,11.7)[12.0,12.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336102
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-1720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.6.17, 10.12, 11.7, 12.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.

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