CVE-2014-0061

medium
Published 2014-03-31 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The validator functions for the procedural languages (PLs) in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a function that is (1) defined in another language or (2) not allowed to be directly called by the user due to permissions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.20140221-1
sid Fixed 1.20140221-1
forky Fixed 1.20140221-1
bullseye Fixed 1.20140221-1
bookworm Fixed 1.20140221-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql{"endIncluding":"8.4.19"}
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.16
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.17
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql8.4.18
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.0.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.