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CVE-2007-2138

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 7.3.19, 7.4.x before 7.4.17, 8.0.x before 8.0.13, 8.1.x before 8.1.9, and 8.2.x before 8.2.4 allows remote authenticated users, when permitted to call a SECURITY DEFINER function, to gain the privileges of the function owner, related to "search_path settings."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
• Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
• PostgreSQL: before 7.3.19; from 7.4 before 7.4.17; from 8.0 before 8.0.13; from 8.1 before 8.1.9; from 8.2 before 8.2.4 — fixed in 7.3.19, 7.4.17, 8.0.13, 8.1.9, 8.2.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PostgreSQL 7.3.19, 7.4.17, 8.0.13, 8.1.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0336.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24989
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24999
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25005
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25019
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25037
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25058
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25184
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25238
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25334
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25717
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25720

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