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Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2017-7547)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 16, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pg_user_mappings view on foreign servers. A remote authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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