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CVE-2023-5870

Postgresql: role pg_signal_backend can signal certain superuser processes.

Published: 12/10/2023 Last updated: 3/2/2026 Reserved: 10/31/2023

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 2.2 Low CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Opam packages affected (5)

conf-mingw-w64-postgresql-i686 conf-mingw-w64-postgresql-x86_64 conf-postgresql ocsigen-start postgresql

Products affected (0)

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