CVE-2021-20229

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL in versions before 13.2. This flaw allows a user with SELECT privilege on one column to craft a special query that returns all columns of the table. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20229

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20229.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-31

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed13.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed13.2-1

References

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