cve-2018-16850
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-13 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
8.0 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
postgresql before versions 11.1, 10.6 is vulnerable to a to SQL injection in pg_upgrade and pg_dump via CREATE TRIGGER ... REFERENCING. Using a purpose-crafted trigger definition, an attacker can cause arbitrary SQL statements to run, with superuser privileges.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105923Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042144Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3757Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16850Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-24Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3818-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1905/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
The PostgreSQL Projectpostgresql
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