CVE-2017-7486

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7486  

It was found that the pg_user_mappings view could disclose information about user mappings to a foreign database to non-administrative database users. A database user with USAGE privilege for this mapping could, when querying the view, obtain user mapping data, such as the username and password used to connect to the foreign database.

It was found that the pg_user_mappings view could disclose information about user mappings to a foreign database to non-administrative database users. A database user with USAGE privilege for this mapping could, when querying the view, obtain user mapping data, such as the username and password used to connect to the foreign database.

Find out more about CVE-2017-7486 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 6.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1677 2017-07-05
Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.7 (RHEL v.6) (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:2425 2017-08-07
Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.8 (RHEL v.6) (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1838 2017-07-31
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-postgresql94-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1678 2017-07-05
Red Hat Satellite 5.8 (RHEL v.6) (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1838 2017-07-31
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1677 2017-07-05
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-postgresql94-postgresql) RHSA-2017:1678 2017-07-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (postgresql) RHSA-2017:1983 2017-08-01
Red Hat Satellite 5.7 (RHEL v.6) (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) RHSA-2017:2425 2017-08-07

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 5 postgresql92-postgresql Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 postgresql Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 postgresql84 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 postgresql Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Wheelwright as the original reporter.

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