CVE-2020-14350
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-24 12:42
Modified
2024-08-04 12:39
Severity ?
Summary
It was found that some PostgreSQL extensions did not use search_path safely in their installation script. An attacker with sufficient privileges could use this flaw to trick an administrator into executing a specially crafted script, during the installation or update of such extension. This affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.4, before 11.9, before 10.14, before 9.6.19, and before 9.5.23.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aPostgreSQL
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