CVE-2021-23214
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-04 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 19:05
Severity ?
Summary
When the server is configured to use trust authentication with a clientcert requirement or to use cert authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022666Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23214/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/apostgresql
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