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🛡️ CVE-2023-39418 — debian-linux

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1220 NVD
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Description

Postgresql: merge fails to enforce update or select row security policies

A vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL with the use of the MERGE command, which fails to test new rows against row security policies defined for UPDATE and SELECT. If UPDATE and SELECT policies forbid some rows that INSERT policies do not forbid, a user could store such rows.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-39418 is classified as CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control. The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents.

Affected software

CVE-2023-39418 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • enterprise-linux
  • postgresql

Timeline and source

Published on 11 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
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bugzilla.redhat.com
git.postgresql.org
www.postgresql.org
access.redhat.com
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access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
git.postgresql.org
security.netapp.com
www.debian.org
www.postgresql.org

Other advisories for this package

debian-linux has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control) in other software:

CVE-2023-39418 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-1220
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

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

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228112
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228112

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