Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0245

Title: PostgreSQL gram.y buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-0245

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Feb 01, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

14.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0245: 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.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-01/msg00298.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00049.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00216.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110806034116082&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12948 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-683 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/12417 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19188 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10175 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-01/msg00298.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00049.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00216.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110806034116082&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12948 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-683 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/12417 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19188 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10175

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0245 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25076

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 01, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.