CVE-2020-1720
LOW severity · CVSS 3.1 · CWE-285
3.1CVSS LOW
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1720 ↗