Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting postgresql-9.5 package, versions <9.5.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (44th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-POSTGRESQL95-1920171
- published 12 Nov 2021
- disclosed 2 Mar 2022
Introduced: 12 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-23222 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 postgresql-9.5 to version 9.5.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postgresql-9.5 package and not the postgresql-9.5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the client's first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-23222
- https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/160c0258802d10b0600d7671b1bbea55d8e17d45
- https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d83cdfdca9d918bbbd6bb209139b94c954da7228
- https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23222/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
- https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d83cdfdca9d918bbbd6bb209139b94c954da7228