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CVE-2017-7546

Public on 2017-08-16
Modified on 2017-10-10
Description

It was found that authenticating to a PostgreSQL database account with an empty password was possible despite libpq's refusal to send an empty password. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to gain access to database accounts with empty passwords.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql92 2017-08-31 16:20 ALAS-2017-884
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql93 2017-08-31 16:20 ALAS-2017-884
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql94 2017-08-31 16:22 ALAS-2017-885
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql95 2017-08-31 16:22 ALAS-2017-885
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql96 2017-10-06 16:51 ALAS-2017-908

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H