CVE-2020-14350

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.

How to fix CVE-2020-14350

To remediate CVE-2020-14350, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 11.9-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 12.4-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 12.4-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 9.5.23 or later
• —upgrade to 9.6.19-0+deb9u1 or later

Is CVE-2020-14350 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 11.9-r0
• from 0, < 12.4-r0
• from 0, < 12.4-r0
• >= 9.5.0, < 9.5.23, >= 9.6.0, < 9.6.19, >= 10.0.0, < 10.14.0, >= 11.0.0, < 11.9.0, >= 12.0.0, < 12.4.0
• from 0, < 9.6.19-0+deb9u1

CVSS scores

References (13)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-14350
• WEBlists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html
• WEBlists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html
• WEBlists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html