CVE-2019-3466

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-3466
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-20 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-03 21:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common in versions prior to 210 didn't drop privileges when creating socket/statistics temporary directories, which could result in local privilege escalation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql-common All All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql-common All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2019-3466 Debian / Ubuntu Privilege Escalation via pg_ctlcluster – Rich Mirch MISC blog.mirch.io Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-4194-2: postgresql-common vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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