Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1409

Title: PostgreSQL character conversion functions EXECUTE access

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1409.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 03, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1409: PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-433.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426302/30/6680/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13476 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0453 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10050 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A676 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-433.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426302/30/6680/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13476 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0453 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10050 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A676

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-2005-1409 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 03, 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.