VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0060

medium
Published 2014-03-31 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 does not properly enforce the ADMIN OPTION restriction, which allows remote authenticated members of a role to add or remove arbitrary users to that role by calling the SET ROLE command before the associated GRANT command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql{"endIncluding":"8.4.19"}
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.16
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.17
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.18
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.