CVE-2020-1720

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-1720
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-17 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-862

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Postgresql Postgresql All All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql All All All All
Application Redhat Decision Manager 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Decision Manager 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Software Collections - All All All
Application Redhat Software Collections - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1798852 – (CVE-2020-1720) CVE-2020-1720 postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 12.2, 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, 9.5.21, and 9.4.26 Released! MISC www.postgresql.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1227-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159270 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rh-postgresql10-postgresql (ELSA-2021-9290)
  • 377113 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for postgresql:12 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0017)
  • 500538 Alpine Linux Security Update for postgresql
  • 502006 Alpine Linux Security Update for postgresql14
  • 502160 Alpine Linux Security Update for postgresql12
  • 502772 Alpine Linux Security Update for postgresql15
  • 504305 Alpine Linux Security Update for postgresql14
  • 900047 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for postgresql 12.1
  • 903369 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for postgresql (1892)
  • 940130 AlmaLinux Security Update for postgresql:12 (ALSA-2020:5620)
  • 940299 AlmaLinux Security Update for postgresql:9.6 (ALSA-2020:5619)
  • 960242 Rocky Linux Security Update for postgresql:12 (RLSA-2020:5620)
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