CVE-2016-0766

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

17/02/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 does not properly restrict access to unspecified custom configuration settings (GUCS) for PL/Java, which allows attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 9.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	9.1.0 (including)	9.1.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	9.2 (including)	9.2.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	9.3 (including)	9.3.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	9.4 (including)	9.4.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*

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

CVE-2016-0766

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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