CVE-2009-2940

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-2940
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-10-22 16:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe pygresql module 3.8.1 and 4.0 for Python does not properly support the PQescapeStringConn function, which might allow remote attackers to leverage escaping issues involving multibyte character encodings.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pygresql Pygresql 3.8.1 All All All
Application Pygresql Pygresql 4.0 All All All
Application Python Python All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Ubuntu update for pygresql - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for pygresql - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1911-1 pygresql af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
USN-870-1: PyGreSQL vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
www.osvdb.org/59028 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997217 Python (Pip) Security Update for PyGreSQL (GHSA-xv6x-43gq-4hfj)

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