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CVE-2016-2193

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.5.x before 9.5.2 does not properly maintain row-security status in cached plans, which might allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a session that performs queries as more than one role.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL: 9.5, 9.5.1

References

• http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=db69e58a0642ef7fa46d62f6c4cf2460c3a1b41b
• http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1656/
• http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-2.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035468
• http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=db69e58a0642ef7fa46d62f6c4cf2460c3a1b41b
• http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1656/
• http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-2.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035468

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