THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2010-0442
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-0442

Postgresql vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
13.4%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT statement that contains a call to the substring function for a bit string, related to an "overflow."
Affected vendor
Postgresql
Affected product
Postgresql
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2010-02-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.4% 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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