Improper Privilege Management Affecting postgresql package, versions [,11.22)[12.0,12.17)[13.0,13.13)[14.0,14.10)[15.0,15.5)[16.0,16.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-6056142
  • published12 Nov 2023
  • disclosed9 Nov 2023
  • creditHemanth Sandrana and Mahendrakar Srinivasarao

Introduced: 9 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-5870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 11.22, 12.17, 13.13, 14.10, 15.5, 16.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management when the pg_cancel_backend role is used. Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker has high privileges.

CVSS Scores

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