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CVE-2017-7547

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Aug 16, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7547
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/522.html

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2 (including)9.2 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.1 (including)9.2.1 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.2 (including)9.2.2 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.3 (including)9.2.3 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.4 (including)9.2.4 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.5 (including)9.2.5 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.6 (including)9.2.6 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.7 (including)9.2.7 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.8 (including)9.2.8 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.9 (including)9.2.9 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.10 (including)9.2.10 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.11 (including)9.2.11 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.12 (including)9.2.12 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.13 (including)9.2.13 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.14 (including)9.2.14 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.15 (including)9.2.15 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.16 (including)9.2.16 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.17 (including)9.2.17 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.18 (including)9.2.18 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.19 (including)9.2.19 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.20 (including)9.2.20 (including)
PostgresqlPostgresql9.2.21 (including)9.2.21 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatpostgresql-0:9.2.23-1.el7_4*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatrh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.9-1.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatrh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.14-1.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSRedHatrh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.9-1.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSRedHatrh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.14-1.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatrh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.9-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatrh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.14-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSRedHatrh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.9-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSRedHatrh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.14-1.el7*
Postgresql-9.1Ubuntutrusty*
Postgresql-9.3Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Postgresql-9.3Ubuntutrusty*
Postgresql-9.3Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Postgresql-9.3Ubuntuupstream*
Postgresql-9.5Ubuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Postgresql-9.5Ubuntuupstream*
Postgresql-9.5Ubuntuxenial*
Postgresql-9.6Ubuntuupstream*
Postgresql-9.6Ubuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References

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