CVE-2018-10925 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2018-10925

It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14,...

Vulnerability Description

It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

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Affected Software

postgresql
Vulnerable Versions:
10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24

Timeline

Official Publish: August 9th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)