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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use a SQL injection via pg_upgrade/pg_dump of
PostgreSQL, in order to read or alter data.
Impacted products: Unisphere EMC, openSUSE Leap, PostgreSQL, RHEL,
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.

Severity: 2/4.

Consequences: data reading, data creation/edition, data deletion.

Provenance: internet client.

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).

Creation date: 08/11/2018.

Revision date: 09/11/2018.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The PostgreSQL product uses a database.

However, user’s data are directly inserted in a SQL query.

An attacker can therefore use a SQL injection via
pg_upgrade/pg_dump of PostgreSQL, in order to read or alter data.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PostgreSQL-SQL-injection-via-pg-upgrade-pg-dump-27738