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CVE-2017-7547

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL: 9.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5 (+59)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100275
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039142
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2677
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2678
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2728
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06
• https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100275

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