CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12172

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-22 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-22
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

PostgreSQL 10.x before 10.1, 9.6.x before 9.6.6, 9.5.x before 9.5.10, 9.4.x before 9.4.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.20, and 9.2.x before 9.2.24 runs under a non-root operating system account, and database superusers have effective ability to run arbitrary code under that system account. PostgreSQL provides a script for starting the database server during system boot. Packages of PostgreSQL for many operating systems provide their own, packager-authored startup implementations. Several implementations use a log file name that the database superuser can replace with a symbolic link. As root, they open(), chmod() and/or chown() this log file name. This often suffices for the database superuser to escalate to root privileges when root starts the server.

Affected configurations

• 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 9.2.18 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.19 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.20 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.21 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.22 • postgresql postgresql 9.2.23 • 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 9.3.14 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.15 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.16 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.17 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.18 • postgresql postgresql 9.3.19 • 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 9.4.9 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.10 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.11 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.12 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.13 • postgresql postgresql 9.4.14 • postgresql postgresql 9.5 … and 16 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References