Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-6601

Title: Postgresql Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-6601.

CWE Category CWE-287

Published Date Jan 09, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.57%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-6601: The DBLink module in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21, when local trust or ident authentication is used, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3278.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28359 http://secunia.com/advisories/28376 http://secunia.com/advisories/28437 http://secunia.com/advisories/28438 http://secunia.com/advisories/28445 http://secunia.com/advisories/28454 http://secunia.com/advisories/28455 http://secunia.com/advisories/28464 http://secunia.com/advisories/28477 http://secunia.com/advisories/28479 http://secunia.com/advisories/28679 http://secunia.com/advisories/28698 http://secunia.com/advisories/29638 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0039.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39500 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11127 https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28359 http://secunia.com/advisories/28376 http://secunia.com/advisories/28437 http://secunia.com/advisories/28438 http://secunia.com/advisories/28445 http://secunia.com/advisories/28454 http://secunia.com/advisories/28455 http://secunia.com/advisories/28464 http://secunia.com/advisories/28477 http://secunia.com/advisories/28479 http://secunia.com/advisories/28679 http://secunia.com/advisories/28698 http://secunia.com/advisories/29638 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0039.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39500 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11127 https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-6601 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 09, 2008 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:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.