CVE-2015-5288

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

Affected products

PostgreSQL: through 9.0.22; 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5 (+42)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html

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