Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0061

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0061

Published: March 31, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41873
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0061
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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 #AU# to read and manipulate data.

The validator functions for the procedural languages (PLs) in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a function that is (1) defined in another language or (2) not allowed to be directly called by the user due to permissions.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-0061

Install update from vendor's website.

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