CVE-2020-1720CWE-285

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ..

Low · published March 17, 2020

CVSS v3.1
3.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
67.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.1 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01183 · 67.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
Published
2020-03-17T15:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 MAR 15:28Z
    A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ..
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