VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-39417

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.68%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-11
Last modified2026-11-01
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-89
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-89

Primary references