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CVE-2012-2655
PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8, and 9.1.x before 9.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause…
Medium4.0EPSS 2.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8, and 9.1.x before 9.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) by adding the (1) SECURITY DEFINER or (2) SET attributes to a procedural language's call handler.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50718 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-8924 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-8893 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-2491 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1037 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-8915 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:092 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1251 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1288 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1299 (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)
Record last updated .