CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
69.6%
PostgreSQL is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.148121");
script_version("2024-07-19T05:05:32+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-19 05:05:32 +0000 (Fri, 19 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-05-16 04:50:30 +0000 (Mon, 16 May 2022)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-09-07 20:04:00 +0000 (Wed, 07 Sep 2022)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-1552");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("PostgreSQL 10.x < 10.21, 11.x < 11.16, 12.x < 12.11, 13.x < 13.7, 14.x < 14.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Windows");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Privilege escalation");
script_dependencies("gb_postgresql_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("postgresql/detected", "Host/runs_windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PostgreSQL is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Autovacuum, REINDEX, CREATE INDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW,
CLUSTER, and pg_amcheck made incomplete efforts to operate safely when a privileged user is
maintaining another user's objects. Those commands activated relevant protections too late or not
at all.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker having permission to create non-temp objects in at
least one schema could execute arbitrary SQL functions under a superuser identity.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PostgreSQL version 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x and 14.x.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 10.21, 11.16, 12.11, 13.7, 14.3 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-143-137-1211-1116-and-1021-released-2449/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2022-1552/");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "10.0", test_version_up: "10.21")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.21", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "11.0", test_version_up: "11.16")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "11.16", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "12.0", test_version_up: "12.11")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.11", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "13.0", test_version_up: "13.7")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "13.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "14.0", test_version_up: "14.3")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.3", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
69.6%