CVE-2023-41119

HIGH

EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server <15.4.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) before 11.21.32, 12.x before 12.16.20, 13.x before 13.12.16, 14.x before 14.9.0, and 15.x before 15.4.0. It contains the function _dbms_aq_move_to_exception_queue that may be used to elevate a user's privileges to superuser. This function accepts the OID of a table, and then accesses that table as the superuser by using SELECT and DML commands.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/security/advisories/cve202341119/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0063

EPSS Percentile 45.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (1)

enterprisedb/postgres_advanced_server < 11.21.32

Published Dec 12, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026