CVE-2014-8161

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-209

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive column values by triggering constraint violation and then reading the error message.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
PostgreSQL: before 9.0.19; from 9.1.0 before 9.1.15; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.10; from 9.3.0 before 9.3.6; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.1 — fixed in 9.0.19, 9.1.15, 9.2.10, 9.3.6, 9.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PostgreSQL 9.0.19, 9.1.15, 9.2.10, 9.3.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html

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