CVE-2019-3466

Name
CVE-2019-3466
Description
The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common in versions prior to 210 didn't drop privileges when creating socket/statistics temporary directories, which could result in local privilege escalation.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Exploit https://blog.mirch.io/2019/11/15/cve-2019-3466-debian-ubuntu-pg_ctlcluster-privilege-escalation/
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4194-2/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql-common:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* postgresql-common >= None < 210

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
postgresql-common 3.15-main 1.1-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common edge-main 1.2-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common 3.19-main 1.2-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common 3.18-main 1.2-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common 3.17-main 1.1-r4 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common 3.16-main 1.1-r4 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
postgresql-common 3.20-main 1.2-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed