🛡️ CVE-2023-39417
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-11
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
enterprise-linux
postgresql
software-collections

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228111
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228111

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