Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0060

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0060

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41880
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0060
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 manipulate data.

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 does not properly enforce the ADMIN OPTION restriction, which allows remote authenticated members of a role to add or remove arbitrary users to that role by calling the SET ROLE command before the associated GRANT command.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-0060

Install update from vendor's website.

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