Description
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 (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/160c0258802d10b0600d7671b1bbea55d8e17d45
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23222/
Scores
CVSS v3
5.9
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-522
Status
published
Products (2)
postgresql/postgresql
14.0
postgresql/postgresql
9.6 - 9.6.24
Published
Mar 02, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026