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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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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 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |