Information disclosure in PostgreSQL - CVE-2015-5288
Published: October 26, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32375
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5288
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.
Affected software
PostgreSQL
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
postgresql (Alpine package)
postgresql
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
postgresql (Alpine package)
postgresql
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5288
Install update from vendor's website.
PostgreSQL - addressed in versions 9.0.23, 9.1.19, 9.2.14, 9.3.10, 9.4.5
postgresql (Alpine package) - update to 9.3.10-r0
postgresql - addressed in versions 9.3.10-1.fc21, 9.4.5-1.fc22, 9.4.5-1.fc23
postgresql (Alpine package) - update to 9.3.10-r0
postgresql - addressed in versions 9.3.10-1.fc21, 9.4.5-1.fc22, 9.4.5-1.fc23
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77049
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33
Related Security Bulletins
- Information disclosure in PostgreSQL
- Information disclosure in postgresql (Alpine package)
- Amazon Linux AMI update for postgresql8
- Amazon Linux AMI update for postgresql92, postgresql93, postgresql94
- Gentoo update for PostgreSQL
- Fedora 23 update for postgresql
- Fedora 22 update for postgresql
- Fedora 21 update for postgresql