CVE-2023-39418 (GCVE-0-2023-39418)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-11 12:19 – Updated: 2025-11-21 07:05
VLAI?
Summary
A vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL with the use of the MERGE command, which fails to test new rows against row security policies defined for UPDATE and SELECT. If UPDATE and SELECT policies forbid some rows that INSERT policies do not forbid, a user could store such rows.
Severity ?
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 8090020231114113548.a75119d5 , < * (rpm)
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 8080020231113134015.63b34585 , < * (rpm)
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 9030020231120082734.rhel9 , < * (rpm)
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 9020020231115020618.rhel9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::appstream
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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