CVE-2022-24128

Timescale TimescaleDB 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2 may allow privilege escalation during extension installation

published March 13, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Timescale TimescaleDB 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2 may allow privilege escalation during extension installation. The installation process uses commands such as CREATE x IF NOT EXIST that allow an unprivileged user to precreate objects. These objects will be used by the installer (which executes as Superuser), leading to privilege escalation. In order to be able to take advantage of this, an unprivileged user would need to be able to create objects in a database and then get a Superuser to install TimescaleDB into their database. (In the fixed versions, the installation aborts when it finds that an object already exists.)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00903 · 59.4th percentile
Published
2022-03-13T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 MAR 00:00Z
    Timescale TimescaleDB 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2 may allow privilege escalation during extension installation
    cvelistv5