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CVE-2009-2940

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The pygresql module 3.8.1 and 4.0 for Python does not properly support the PQescapeStringConn function, which might allow remote attackers to leverage escaping issues involving multibyte character encodings.

Affected products

• Pygresql: 3.8.1, 4.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/37046
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37654
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-870-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1911
• http://www.osvdb.org/59028
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37046
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37654
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-870-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1911
• http://www.osvdb.org/59028

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