CVE-2018-16850

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · SQL injection

9.8CVSS CRITICAL

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.

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 (2)

PostgreSQL Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Recommendation

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

Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16850 ↗

Additional information

NVD record
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16850Patch
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1905/Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-24Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105923Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042144Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3757Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3818-1/Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105923Advisory