CVE-2023-39417

Published: 11 August 2023

IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser.

Notes

PostgreSQL 9.3 is end of life upstream, and no updates are
are available. Marking as deferred in -esm-main releases.
PostgreSQL 9.3 is end of life upstream, and no updates are
are available. Marking as deferred in -esm-main releases.

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2023-39417/
• https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-154-149-1312-1216-1121-and-postgresql-16-beta-3-released-2689/
• https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=de494ec14f6bd7f2676623a5934723a6c8ba51c2 (REL_15_4)
• https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b1b585e0fc3dd195bc2e338c80760bede08de5f1 (REL_13_12)
• https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=919ebb023e74546c6293352556365091c5402366 (REL_11_21)
• https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2023-39417
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39417
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6296-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6366-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39417
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228111