Information disclosure in PostgreSQL - CVE-2018-10925

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Information disclosure in PostgreSQL - CVE-2018-10925

Published: August 13, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14327
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10925
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to improper check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". A remote attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges can read arbitrary bytes server memory.


Affected software

PostgreSQL
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
Fedora
Red Hat Virtualization Manager
CloudForms
postgresql (Alpine package)
postgresql

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10925

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24.

PostgreSQL - addressed in versions 9.3.24, 9.4.19, 9.5.14, 9.6.10, 10.5
postgresql (Alpine package) - update to 9.6.10-r0
postgresql - addressed in versions 9.6.10-1.fc27, 10.5-1.fc28

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