CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5424

7.1 HIGH Published 2016-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • postgresql postgresql (<= 9.1.22) • postgresql postgresql 9.2 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.1 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.2 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.3 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.4 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.5 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.6 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.7 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.8 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.9 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.10 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.11 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.12 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.13 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.14 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.15 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.16 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.17 • postgresql postgresql 9.3 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.1 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.2 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.3 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.4 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.5 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.6 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.7 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.8 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.9 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.10 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.11 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.12 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.13 • postgresql postgresql 9.4 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.1 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.2 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.3 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.4 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.5 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.6 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.7 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.8 • postgresql postgresql 9.5 • postgresql postgresql 9.5.1 • postgresql postgresql 9.5.2 • postgresql postgresql 9.5.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References