db-security-ctf

Database Security – CTF Vulnerability Lab SEC304 / CN5134...

CVE-2025-55282 aiven-db-migrate allows Privilege Escalation via unrestricted search_path during migration

aiven-db-migrate is an Aiven database migration tool. Prior to 1.0.7, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a user to elevate to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases during a migration from an untrusted source server. By exploiting a lack of searchpath restriction, an attacke...

CVE-2025-31480

The CVE-2025-31480 affects the aiven-extras PostgreSQL extension. The root cause is the format function not being schema-prefixed, enabling privilege escalation to superuser in PostgreSQL databases that have aiven-extras installed. Remediation per the sources is to upgrade to version 1.1.16 and, ...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-0067

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The make check command for the test suites in PostgreSQL 9.3.3 and earlier does not properly invoke initdb to specify the authentication requirements for a...

SUSE CVE-2007-6600

PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21 uses superuser privileges instead of table owner privileges for 1 VACUUM and 2 ANALYZE operations within index functions, and supports 3 SET ROLE and 4 SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION within inde...

PostgreSQL 9.4-0.5.3 - Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: PostgreSQL 9.4-0.5.3 - Privilege Escalation Date: 2017-10-11 Exploit Author: Johannes Segitz Vendor Homepage: https://bugzilla.suse.com/showbug.cgi?id=1062722 Software Link: - Version: Before postgresql-init-9.4-0.5.3.1 Tested on: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 CVE : CVE-2017-14798...

CVE-2017-14798 local privilege escalation in SUSE postgresql init script

A race condition in the postgresql init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their privileges to root...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL's contains several vulnerabilities: John Heasman discovered that the LOAD extension is vulnerable to local privilege escalation CAN-2005-0227. It is possible to bypass the...