It was discovered that PostgreSQL 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.
Find out more about CVE-2018-10925 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Virtualization includes vulnerable versions of postgresql. However this flaw is not known to be exploitable under any supported configuration of Red Hat Virtualization. A future update may address this issue.
This issue affects the versions of the postsgresql package as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5.8. However, this flaw is not known to be exploitable under any supported scenario in Satellite 5.8. A future update may address this issue.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.1 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-postgresql96-postgresql) | RHSA-2018:2566 | 2018-08-27 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) | RHSA-2018:2511 | 2018-08-20 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-postgresql10-postgresql) | RHSA-2018:2565 | 2018-08-27 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-postgresql96-postgresql) | RHSA-2018:2566 | 2018-08-27 |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.9 (postgresql96) | RHSA-2018:3816 | 2018-12-13 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-postgresql95-postgresql) | RHSA-2018:2511 | 2018-08-20 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | Affected |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | postgresql | Not affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | millicore | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | postgresql | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | postgresql | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | postgresql84 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | postgresql | Not affected |
| Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 for RHEL 7 | postgresql96 | Affected |
Vulmon