CVE-2015-0244

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · SQL injection

9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1 does not properly handle errors while reading a protocol message, which allows remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks via crafted binary data in a parameter and causing an error, which triggers the loss of synchronization and part of the protocol message to be treated as a new message, as demonstrated by causing a timeout or query cancellation.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

PostgreSQL

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/Advisory
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.htmlAdvisory
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.htmlAdvisory
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.htmlAdvisory
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.htmlAdvisory
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.htmlAdvisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155Advisory