CVE-2020-25696

Description

A flaw was found in the psql interactive terminal of PostgreSQL in versions before 13.1, before 12.5, before 11.10, before 10.15, before 9.6.20 and before 9.5.24. If an interactive psql session uses \gset when querying a compromised server, the attacker can execute arbitrary code as the operating system account running psql. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

How to fix CVE-2020-25696

To remediate CVE-2020-25696, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 11.10-r0 or later
—upgrade to 12.5-r0 or later
—upgrade to 12.5-r0 or later
—upgrade to 9.5.24 or later
—upgrade to 13.1-1 or later

Is CVE-2020-25696 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

from 0, < 11.10-r0
from 0, < 12.5-r0
from 0, < 12.5-r0
>= 9.5.0, < 9.5.24, >= 9.6.0, < 9.6.20, >= 10.0.0, < 10.15.0, >= 11.0.0, < 11.10.0, >= 12.0.0, < 12.5.0, >= 13.0.0, < 13.1.0
from 0, < 13.1-1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H