CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5424
7.1 HIGH
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- 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
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92435 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 access.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92435 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 access.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory