vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-16082: node-postgres -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability was found within the pg module when the remote database or query specifies a specially crafted column name. There are 2 likely scenarios in which one would likely be vulnerable. 1) Executing unsafe, user-supplied sql which contains a malicious column name. 2) Connecting to an untrusted database and executing a query which returns results where any of the column names are malicious.

Solution

debian-upgrade-node-postgres
Title
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