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CVE-2015-5288
The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and…
Medium6.4EPSS 4.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.4% 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 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- 77049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2772-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-33 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-6d2a957a87 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1919 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1907 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-7fac92f49c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3475 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-3374 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1033775 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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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