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: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0060
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
PostgreSQL
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0060
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0211.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0221.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0249.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0469.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61307
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6448
- http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140220securityrelease
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2864
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2865
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1506/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2120-1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-0060
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536