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🛡️ CVE-2024-1713 on Ubuntu — plv8

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

A user who can create objects in a database with plv8 3.2.1 installed is able to cause deferred triggers to execute as the Superuser during autovacuum.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-1713 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package plv8. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1713 is classified as CWE-394: Unexpected Status Code or Return Value. The product does not properly check when a function or operation returns a value that is legitimate for the function, but is not expected by the product.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1713 is recorded against 1 package.

  • plv8

Timeline and source

Published on 14 March 2024 and last revised on 24 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

plv8 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-394: Unexpected Status Code or Return Value) in other software:

CVE-2024-1713 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-10-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
plv8

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