CVE-2012-3488

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

03/10/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The libxslt support in contrib/xml2 in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 does not properly restrict access to files and URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to modify data, obtain sensitive information, or trigger outbound traffic to arbitrary external hosts by leveraging (1) stylesheet commands that are permitted by the libxslt security options or (2) an xslt_process feature, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.9:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.4.9:::::::*

CVE-2012-3488

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools