CVE-2005-0245

Postgresql vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

14.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in gram.y for PostgreSQL 8.0.0 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of arguments to a refcursor function (gram.y), which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0247.

Affected vendor

Postgresql

Affected product

Postgresql

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-02-01

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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