VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7484

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Published 2017-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

It was found that some selectivity estimation functions in PostgreSQL before 9.2.21, 9.3.x before 9.3.17, 9.4.x before 9.4.12, 9.5.x before 9.5.7, and 9.6.x before 9.6.3 did not check user privileges before providing information from pg_statistic, possibly leaking information. An unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to steal some information from tables they are otherwise not allowed to access.

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.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed9.6.3-1
suse slesaffected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql{"endIncluding":"9.2.20"}
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.16
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6.2

References

CWEs

CWE-285 CWE-200

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

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