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Access Control Bypass Affecting timescale/timescaledb package, versions [2.8.0,2.9.3)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.18% (55th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TIMESCALETIMESCALEDB-3319678
  • published 14 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 14 Feb 2023
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 14 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-25149 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade timescale/timescaledb to version 2.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass. During installation, TimescaleDB creates a telemetry job that runs as the installation user. The queries run as part of the telemetry data collection were not run with a locked down search_path, allowing malicious users to create functions that would be executed by the telemetry job, leading to privilege escalation.

NOTE: In order to be able to take advantage of this vulnerability, a user would need to be able to create objects in a database and then get a superuser to install TimescaleDB into their database.