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CVE-2016-5424

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-94 Code Injection
Publication date:
09/12/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.1.22 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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