VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7546

critical
Published 2017-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to incorrect authentication flaw allowing remote attackers to gain access to database accounts with an empty password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
9.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 9.6.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
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 postgresqlpostgresql9.2.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.16
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.17
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.18
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.19
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.20
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.21
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.16
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.17
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.5.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.6.3

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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