CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-23222

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Mar 02, 2022 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.7 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the clients first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Postgresql Postgresql 9.6 (including) 9.6.24 (excluding)
Postgresql Postgresql 10.0 (including) 10.19 (excluding)
Postgresql Postgresql 11.0 (including) 11.14 (excluding)
Postgresql Postgresql 12.0 (including) 12.9 (excluding)
Postgresql Postgresql 13.0 (including) 13.5 (excluding)
Postgresql Postgresql 14.0 (including) 14.0 (including)
Postgresql-10 Ubuntu bionic *
Postgresql-10 Ubuntu upstream *
Postgresql-12 Ubuntu focal *
Postgresql-12 Ubuntu trusty *
Postgresql-12 Ubuntu upstream *
Postgresql-13 Ubuntu hirsute *
Postgresql-13 Ubuntu impish *
Postgresql-13 Ubuntu upstream *
Postgresql-9.1 Ubuntu trusty *
Postgresql-9.3 Ubuntu trusty *
Postgresql-9.5 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Postgresql-9.5 Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libpq-0:13.5-1.el8 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-postgresql13-postgresql-0:13.5-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-postgresql12-postgresql-0:12.9-1.el7 *

Potential Mitigations

References