Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PostgreSQL Global Development Group products - CVE-2014-0067
Published: March 31, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41879
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0067
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The "make check" command for the test suites in PostgreSQL 9.3.3 and earlier does not properly invoke initdb to specify the authentication requirements for a database cluster to be used for the tests, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this cluster.
Affected software
macOS Server
macOS
Amazon Linux AMI
PostgreSQL
macOS
Amazon Linux AMI
PostgreSQL
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0067
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00038.html
- http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140220securityrelease
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2864
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2865
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1506/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65721
- https://support.apple.com/HT205219
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031