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CVE-2014-0066
The chkpass extension in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3…
Medium4.0EPSS 4.7%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
The chkpass extension in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 does not properly check the return value of the crypt library function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.
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)
- 4.7% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (4 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 (16)
- RHSA-2014:0211 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0221 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6448 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0469 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140220securityrelease (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2864 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0249 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1506/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2120-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2865 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0368 (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)
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