CVE-2024-10979
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-14 13:00
Modified
2024-11-25 04:40
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl allows an unprivileged database user to change sensitive process environment variables (e.g. PATH). That often suffices to enable arbitrary code execution, even if the attacker lacks a database server operating system user. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 are affected.
References
f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/fmora50591/postgresql-env-vuln/blob/main/README.md
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