Code Injection in PostgreSQL - CVE-2010-1169

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Code Injection in PostgreSQL - CVE-2010-1169

Published: September 19, 2017 / Updated: June 23, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU111770
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1169
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Affected software:
PostgreSQL

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code.

PostgreSQL 7.4 before 7.4.29, 8.0 before 8.0.25, 8.1 before 8.1.21, 8.2 before 8.2.17, 8.3 before 8.3.11, 8.4 before 8.4.4, and 9.0 Beta before 9.0 Beta 2 does not properly restrict PL/perl procedures, which allows remote authenticated users, with database-creation privileges, to execute arbitrary Perl code via a crafted script, related to the Safe module (aka Safe.pm) for Perl. NOTE: some sources report that this issue is the same as CVE-2010-1447.


How to mitigate CVE-2010-1169

Install update from vendor's website.

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