CVE-2016-2193
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.5 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.5.1 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2193.html
- 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
CWEs
CWE-254
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.