About “PostgreSQL”

A curated feed of “PostgreSQL”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 503 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 127 were published. Average CVSS is 7.2 (all time; 7.9 over 365d), and 61% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'), CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'), CWE-862 - Missing Authorization.

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CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2003-11-03
High

CVE-2003-0901

Buffer overflow in to_ascii for PostgreSQL 7.2.x, and 7.3.x before 7.3.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

2003-08-27
High

CVE-2003-0672

Format string vulnerability in pam-pgsql 0.5.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the username that isp rovided during authentication, which is not properly handled whe…

2003-08-18
High

CVE-2003-0515

SQL injection vulnerabilities in the (1) PostgreSQL or (2) MySQL authentication modules for teapop 0.3.5 and earlier allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL and possibly gain privileges.

2003-08-07
Critical

CVE-2003-0500

SQL injection vulnerability in the PostgreSQL authentication module (mod_sql_postgres) for ProFTPD before 1.2.9rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL and gain privileges by bypassing au…

2003-02-19
High

CVE-2003-0040

SQL injection vulnerability in the PostgreSQL auth module for courier 0.40 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute SQL code via the user name.

2003-01-17
High

CVE-2002-1397

Vulnerability in the cash_words() function for PostgreSQL 7.2 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large negative argument, possibly t…

Medium

CVE-2002-1398

Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long date string, aka a vulnerability "in handli…

Critical

CVE-2002-1399

Unknown vulnerability in cash_out and possibly other functions in PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and earlier, and possibly later versions before 7.2.3, with unknown impact, based on an invalid integer input which…

High

CVE-2002-1400

Heap-based buffer overflow in the repeat() function for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing repeat() to generate a large string.

Medium

CVE-2002-1401

Buffer overflows in (1) circle_poly, (2) path_encode and (3) path_add (also incorrectly identified as path_addr) for PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and earlier allow attackers to cause a denial of service and poss…

Medium

CVE-2002-1402

Buffer overflows in the (1) TZ and (2) SET TIME ZONE enivronment variables for PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and earlier allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

High

CVE-2003-0025

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in IMP 2.2.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized database activities and possibly gain privileges via certain database functions such as…

2002-12-31
High

CVE-2002-1657

PostgreSQL uses the username for a salt when generating passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

2002-10-03
High

CVE-2002-1642

PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 allows local users to delete transaction log (pg_clog) data and cause a denial of service (data loss) via the VACUUM command.

2002-09-24
Medium

CVE-2002-0972

Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the functions (1) lpad or (2) rpad.

2002-08-12
High

CVE-2002-0802

The multibyte support in PostgreSQL 6.5.x with SQL_ASCII encoding consumes an extra character when processing a character that cannot be converted, which could remove an escape character from the que…

2001-09-10
High

CVE-2001-1089

libnss-pgsql in nss-pgsql 0.9.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by inserting SQL code into an HTTP request.

High

CVE-2001-1090

nss_postgresql 0.6.1 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries by inserting SQL code into an HTTP request.

High

CVE-2001-1369

Leon J Breedt pam-pgsql before 0.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL code and bypass authentication or modify user account records by injecting SQL statements into user or password f…

2001-08-31
Medium

CVE-2000-1199

PostgreSQL stores usernames and passwords in plaintext in (1) pg_shadow and (2) pg_pwd, which allows attackers with sufficient privileges to gain access to databases.

2001-08-29
High

CVE-2001-1379

The PostgreSQL authentication modules (1) mod_auth_pgsql 0.9.5, and (2) mod_auth_pgsql_sys 0.9.4, allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary SQL via a SQL injection attack…

2001-03-26
High

CVE-2001-0201

The Postaci frontend for PostgreSQL does not properly filter characters such as semicolons, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries via the deletecontact.php program.

1999-12-02
Low

CVE-1999-0862

Insecure directory permissions in RPM distribution for PostgreSQL allows local users to gain privileges by reading a plaintext password file.