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CVE-2007-6601

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The DBLink module in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21, when local trust or ident authentication is used, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3278.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8
• PostgreSQL: from 7.3.0 before 7.3.21; from 7.4.0 before 7.4.19; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.15; from 8.1.0 before 8.1.11; from 8.2.0 before 8.2.6; 8.2 — fixed in 7.3.21, 7.4.19, 8.0.15, 8.1.11, 8.2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PostgreSQL 7.3.21, 7.4.19, 8.0.15, 8.1.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28359
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28376
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28437
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28438
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28445
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28454
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28455
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28464
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28477
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28479

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