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Red Hat: CVE-2022-26520: postgresql-jdbc: Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 10, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In pgjdbc before 42.3.3, an attacker (who controls the jdbc URL or properties) can call java.util.logging.FileHandler to write to arbitrary files through the loggerFile and loggerLevel connection properties. An example situation is that an attacker could create an executable JSP file under a Tomcat web root. NOTE: the vendor's position is that there is no pgjdbc vulnerability; instead, it is a vulnerability for any application to use the pgjdbc driver with untrusted connection properties

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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