6.5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.972 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.7%
A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL database server.
Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy
for another database user to guess.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.17-0squeeze1.
For the testing (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), postgresql-8.4
packages have been removed; in those, this problem has been fixed in
postgresql-9.1 9.1.9-0wheezy1 (wheezy), and 9.1.9-1 (sid) respectively.
Note: postgresql-8.4 in Squeeze is not affected by CVE-2013-1899
(database files corruption) and CVE-2013-1901
(unprivileged user can interfere with in-progress backups).
We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.