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ghsa-2r9h-x757-8j9q

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-11-14 15:32

Modified

2025-11-04 00:32

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-2r9h-x757-8j9q",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:32:03Z",
  "published": "2024-11-14T15:32:16Z",
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CVE-2024-10979 (GCVE-0-2024-10979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-11-14 13:00

Modified

2025-11-03 21:51

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-15 - External Control of System or Configuration Setting

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

URL

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https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	PostgreSQL	Version: 17 < 17.1 Version: 16 < 16.5 Version: 15 < 15.9 Version: 14 < 14.14 Version: 13 < 13.17 Version: 0 < 12.21

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