Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pgcancelbackend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would...

CVE-2023-5870

Summary (CVE-2023-5870) : PostgreSQL vulnerability where the pg_cancel_backend role can signal background workers (including the autovacuum launcher and logical replication launcher). The underlying issue is that signaling is possible for non-core extensions with less-resilient background workers...

postgresql: Role pg_signal_backend can signal certain superuser processes.

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pgcancelbackend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would...

CVE-2023-5870

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pgcancelbackend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would...

postgresql-server -- Role pg_cancel_backend can signal certain superuser processes

PostgreSQL Project reports: Documentation says the pgcancelbackend role cannot signal "a backend owned by a superuser". On the contrary, it can signal background workers, including the logical replication launcher. It can signal autovacuum workers and the autovacuum launcher. Signaling autovacuum...

PT-2023-6889 · Unknown +11 · Postgresql +10

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PostgreSQL affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the pg signal backend role in PostgreSQL, which allows signaling certain superuser processes. This can be exploited by a remote high-privileged user to launch a...

SUSE CVE-2020-14349

It was found that PostgreSQL versions before 12.4, before 11.9 and before 10.14 did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in an attack similar to CVE-2018-1058, in order to execute arbitrary SQL command in the context of the...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2020-0365)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3074-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3074-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2021-3515

A shell injection flaw was found in pglogical, logical replication extension for PostgreSQL. An attacker with CREATEDB privileges on a PostgreSQL server can craft a database name that allows execution of shell commands as the postgresql user when calling pglogical.createsubscription...

Security Bulletin: Search path vulnerability in PostgreSQL Server bundled in IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere (CVE-2020-14349, CVE-2020-14350)

Summary The version of PostgreSQL server bundled with IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary SQL command in the context of the user used for...

postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL, where it did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to use this flaw in an attack similar to CVE-2018-1058 to execute an arbitrary SQL command in the user's context for replication. The highest...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhvm-appliance security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for rhvm-appliance is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

RHEL 8 : rhvm-appliance (RHSA-2021:0988)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0988 advisory. The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is availab...

CentOS 8 : postgresql:12 (CESA-2020:5620)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:5620 advisory. - postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication CVE-2020-14349 - postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION...

postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL, where it did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to use this flaw in an attack similar to CVE-2018-1058 to execute an arbitrary SQL command in the user's context for replication. The highest...

postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL, where it did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to use this flaw in an attack similar to CVE-2018-1058 to execute an arbitrary SQL command in the user's context for replication. The highest...

RHEL 8 : postgresql:12 (RHSA-2021:0163)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0163 advisory. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream...

postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL, where it did not properly sanitize the searchpath during logical replication. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to use this flaw in an attack similar to CVE-2018-1058 to execute an arbitrary SQL command in the user's context for replication. The highest...