Information Exposure Affecting postgresql package, versions [11.0,11.12)[12.0,12.7)[13.0,13.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2336105
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Oct 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-32029  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 11.12, 12.7, 13.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A flaw was found in postgresql. Using an UPDATE ... RETURNING command on a purpose-crafted table, an authenticated database user could read arbitrary bytes of server memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

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