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PostgreSQL: CVE-2018-10925: Memory disclosure and missing authorization in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE.

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 9, 2018
Added
Jan 7, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.

Solution

postgres-upgrade-10_5
Title
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