cve-2020-1720
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-03-17 15:28
Modified
2024-08-04 06:46
Severity ?
3.1 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1720Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2011/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1720Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2011/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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