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CVE-2017-7547

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

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pg_user_mappings view on foreign servers. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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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 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H