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MSRC_CVE-2023-5870
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2023-12-01 08:00 - Updated: 2024-11-23 00:00Summary
Postgresql: role pg_signal_backend can signal certain superuser processes.
Notes
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CVE-2023-5870 (GCVE-0-2023-5870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-10 17:58 – Updated: 2025-11-20 01:24
VLAI?
EPSS
Summary
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Credits
Upstream acknowledges Hemanth Sandrana and Mahendrakar Srinivasarao as the original reporters.
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"title": "Postgresql: role pg_signal_backend can signal certain superuser processes.",
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}
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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