PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to…

Description

PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:676 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2005:433 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• FLSA-2006:157366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2005-0453 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 13476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [pgsql-announce] 20050502 IMPORTANT: two new PostgreSQL security problems found (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10050 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2005:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2005-1409](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2005-1409.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2005-1409)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 21:51 UTC.