Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0227

RCE

Title: PostgreSQL arbitrary shared library loading

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0227.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0227: PostgreSQL (pgsql) 7.4.x, 7.2.x, and other versions allows local users to load arbitrary shared libraries and execute code via the LOAD extension.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-02/msg00000.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110726899107148&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12948 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-08.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-668 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:040 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-138.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-150.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12411 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10234 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-02/msg00000.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110726899107148&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12948 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-08.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-668 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:040 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-138.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-150.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12411 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10234

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0227 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.