VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0062

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
4.9

Description

Race condition in the (1) CREATE INDEX and (2) unspecified ALTER TABLE commands in 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 allows remote authenticated users to create an unauthorized index or read portions of unauthorized tables by creating or deleting a table with the same name during the timing window.

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-362

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

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