CVE-2020-14350

HIGH

PostgreSQL < 9.5.23 - Untrusted Search Path in Extension Installation Scripts

Title source: llm

Description

It was found that some PostgreSQL extensions did not use search_path safely in their installation script. An attacker with sufficient privileges could use this flaw to trick an administrator into executing a specially crafted script, during the installation or update of such extension. This affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.4, before 11.9, before 10.14, before 9.6.19, and before 9.5.23.

References (11)

Core 11

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-426

Status published

Products (7)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04

debian/debian_linux 9.0

opensuse/leap 15.1

opensuse/leap 15.2

postgresql/postgresql 9.5 - 9.5.23

Published Aug 24, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026