CVE-2010-1170

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The PL/Tcl implementation in PostgreSQL 7.4 before 7.4.29, 8.0 before 8.0.25, 8.1 before 8.1.21, 8.2 before 8.2.17, 8.3 before 8.3.11, 8.4 before 8.4.4, and 9.0 Beta before 9.0 Beta 2 loads Tcl code from the pltcl_modules table regardless of the table's ownership and permissions, which allows remote authenticated users, with database-creation privileges, to execute arbitrary Tcl code by creating this table and inserting a crafted Tcl script.

Affected products

PostgreSQL: 7.4, 7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.4.3, 7.4.4, 7.4.5 (+104)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041559.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041579.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041591.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
http://osvdb.org/64757
http://secunia.com/advisories/39815
http://secunia.com/advisories/39820
http://secunia.com/advisories/39845
http://secunia.com/advisories/39898
http://secunia.com/advisories/39939
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2051

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