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CVE-2022-41862

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In PostgreSQL, a modified, unauthenticated server can send an unterminated string during the establishment of Kerberos transport encryption. In certain conditions a server can cause a libpq client to over-read and report an error message containing uninitialized bytes.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 8
• PostgreSQL: from 12.0 before 12.14; from 13.0 before 13.10; from 14.0 before 14.7; from 15.0 before 15.2 — fixed in 12.14, 13.10, 14.7, 15.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Integration Camel K: all versions
• RedHat Integration Camel Quarkus: all versions
• RedHat Integration Service Registry: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PostgreSQL 12.14, 13.10, 14.7, 15.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165722
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0002/
• https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2022-41862/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165722
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0002/
• https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2022-41862/

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