CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-24128
8.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
Timescale TimescaleDB 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2 may allow privilege escalation during extension installation. The installation process uses commands such as CREATE x IF NOT EXIST that allow an unprivileged user to precreate objects. These objects will be used by the installer (which executes as Superuser), leading to privilege escalation. In order to be able to take advantage of this, an unprivileged user would need to be able to create objects in a database and then get a Superuser to install TimescaleDB into their database. (In the fixed versions, the installation aborts when it finds that an object already exists.)
Affected configurations
• timescale timescaledb (>= 1.0.0 < 2.5.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/overview/release-notes/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/commit/6275c2985927cfd4900b85cac5120227c8cb1f0c github.com
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/commit/c8b8516e466c2bb7d2ae6a4b0b2e8e60b24b24a2 github.com
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/security/advisories/GHSA-fh8v-663w-79w9 Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/overview/release-notes/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/commit/6275c2985927cfd4900b85cac5120227c8cb1f0c github.com
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/commit/c8b8516e466c2bb7d2ae6a4b0b2e8e60b24b24a2 github.com
- https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/security/advisories/GHSA-fh8v-663w-79w9 Third Party Advisory