CVE-2020-1720 — Improper Authorization in Postgresql
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA3.1
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 17
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Enterprise Linux 8.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
4Microsoft▶
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION" where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to pe↗2020-03-10
💬Community
8Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-27759 ImageMagick: outside the range of representable values of type 'int' at MagickCore/quantize.c↗2020-11-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-1720 mingw-postgresql: postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks [fedora-all]↗2020-03-11
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-1720 postgresql:11/postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks [fedora-all]↗2020-03-11
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-1720 postgresql:10/postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks [fedora-all]↗2020-03-11
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-1720 postgresql:9.6/postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks [fedora-all]↗2020-03-11